Replace default handler of Python logger

Perhaps the following example will help. Basically you can either remove the handlers of the logger you’d like to disable, or don’t propagate with the logger you are logging from.

$ cat testlog.py
import logging
logging.basicConfig(filename="foo", level=logging.DEBUG)
root_logger = logging.getLogger()
root_logger.debug('bar')

my_logger = logging.getLogger('my_logger')
FORMAT = "%(process)s %(thread)s: %(message)s"
formatter = logging.Formatter(fmt=FORMAT)
handler = logging.StreamHandler()
handler.setFormatter(formatter)

my_logger.addHandler(handler)
my_logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
my_logger.info('baz')

my_logger.propagate = False
my_logger.info('foobar')

my_logger.propagate = True
my_logger.info('foobaz')
root_logger.handlers = []
my_logger.info('barbaz')

$ python testlog.py
5927 140735224465760: baz
5927 140735224465760: foobar
5927 140735224465760: foobaz
5927 140735224465760: barbaz

$ cat foo
DEBUG:root:bar
INFO:my_logger:baz
INFO:my_logger:foobaz