Logging

Socon does not use logging internally but we know that people do. This is why we have added an easy way to define your logging configuration in the settings.py file.

Custom logging configuration

If you don’t want to use Python’s dictConfig format to configure your logger, you can specify your own configuration scheme.

The LOGGING_CONFIG setting defines the callable that will be used to configure Socon’s loggers. By default, it points at Python’s logging.config.dictConfig() function. However, if you want to use a different configuration process, you can use any other callable that takes a single argument. The contents of LOGGING will be provided as the value of that argument when logging is configured.

Disabling logging configuration

If you don’t want to configure logging at all (or you want to manually configure logging using your own approach), you can set LOGGING_CONFIG to None. Here’s an example that disables Socon’s logging configuration and then manually configures logging:

settings.py

LOGGING_CONFIG = None

import logging.config
logging.config.dictConfig(...)

Setting LOGGING_CONFIG to None only means that the automatic configuration process is disabled, not logging itself.