Change default location log file generated by logger in python

Question

I am using logger in my python source code, and want to create logs on specific location but python logging module creates the log files at the default place i.e. from where it is executed.

Is there is any way to change this default location?

below is my configuration

  import logging
  logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
  logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)-8s %(message)s', datefmt='%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S', filename='testGene.log, filemode='w')

Solution

Try this:

import logging
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)-8s %(message)s', datefmt='%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S', filename='path/to/your/directory/testGene.log', filemode='w')

Or

import logging
import os
if not os.path.exists("Logs"):
    os.makedirs("Logs")
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)-8s %(message)s', datefmt='%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S', filename='Logs/testGene.log', filemode='w')

Comments

[Aman Jaiswal]

This will not work, when you run the python source code it will try to add below two location which will end up with error "No such file or directory" 1: path location of log file 2: location from where script is executed

[Aman Jaiswal]

This will not work, when you run the python source code it will try to add below two location which will end up with error "No such file or directory" 1: path location of log file 2: location from where script is executed

[Hayat]

@AmanJaiswal It will run if your platform is Linux. And by default, it will add path for the current working directory.

[Aman Jaiswal]

Please try to run given solution from multiple places and you will end up creating multiple folder, this will never going to target only one destination folder