Modifying logging message format based on message logging level in Python3

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With a bit of digging, I was able to modify the Python 2 solution to work with Python 3. In Python2, it was necessary to temporarily overwrite Formatter._fmt. In Python3, support for multiple format string types requires us to temporarily overwrite Formatter._style._fmt instead.

# Custom formatter
class MyFormatter(logging.Formatter):

    err_fmt  = "ERROR: %(msg)s"
    dbg_fmt  = "DBG: %(module)s: %(lineno)d: %(msg)s"
    info_fmt = "%(msg)s"

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(fmt="%(levelno)d: %(msg)s", datefmt=None, style="%")  
    
    def format(self, record):

        # Save the original format configured by the user
        # when the logger formatter was instantiated
        format_orig = self._style._fmt

        # Replace the original format with one customized by logging level
        if record.levelno == logging.DEBUG:
            self._style._fmt = MyFormatter.dbg_fmt

        elif record.levelno == logging.INFO:
            self._style._fmt = MyFormatter.info_fmt

        elif record.levelno == logging.ERROR:
            self._style._fmt = MyFormatter.err_fmt

        # Call the original formatter class to do the grunt work
        result = logging.Formatter.format(self, record)

        # Restore the original format configured by the user
        self._style._fmt = format_orig

        return result

And here is Halloleo’s example of how to use the above in your script (from the Python2 version of this question):

fmt = MyFormatter()
hdlr = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)

hdlr.setFormatter(fmt)
logging.root.addHandler(hdlr)
logging.root.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

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