python logging file is not working when using logging.basicConfig

Question

I have the following lines of code that initialize logging. I comment one out and leave the other to be used. The problem that I'm facing is that the one that is meant to log to the file not logging to file. It is instead logging to the console. Please help.

For logging to Console:

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO,
        format='%(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] (%(threadName)-10s) %(message)s',)

for file logging

logging.basicConfig(filename='server-soap.1.log',level=logging.INFO,
        format='%(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] (%(threadName)-10s) %(message)s')

Answer 1

I found out what the problem was. It was in the ordering of the imports and the logging definition.

The effect of the poor ordering was that the libraries that I imported before defining the logging using logging.basicConfig() defined the logging. This therefore took precedence to the logging that I was trying to define later using logging.basicConfig()

Below is how I needed to order it:

import logging
## for file logging
logging.basicConfig(filename='server-soap.1.log',
        level=logging.INFO,
        format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(threadName)-10s %(message)s',)

from pysimplesoap.server import SoapDispatcher, SOAPHandler
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer
import time,random,datetime,pytz,sys,threading
from datetime import timedelta
#DB
import psycopg2, psycopg2.extras
from psycopg2.pool import ThreadedConnectionPool

#ESB Call
from suds import WebFault
from suds.client import Client

But the faulty ordering that I initially had was:

from pysimplesoap.server import SoapDispatcher, SOAPHandler
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer
import logging
import time,random,datetime,pytz,sys,threading
from datetime import timedelta
#DB
import psycopg2, psycopg2.extras
from psycopg2.pool import ThreadedConnectionPool

#ESB Call
from suds import WebFault
from suds.client import Client

## for file logging

logging.basicConfig(filename='server-soap.1.log',
        level=logging.INFO,
        format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(threadName)-10s %(message)s',)