Python using basicConfig method to log to console and file

Question

I don't know why this code prints to the screen, but not to the file? File "example1.log" is created, but nothing is written there.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG,
                    format='%(asctime)s %(message)s',
                    handlers=[logging.FileHandler("example1.log"),
                              logging.StreamHandler()])
logging.debug('This message should go to the log file and to the console')
logging.info('So should this')
logging.warning('And this, too')

I have "bypassed" this problem by creating a logging object (example code), but it keeps bugging me why basicConfig() approach failed?

PS. If I change basicConfig call to:

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG,
                    filename="example2.log",
                    format='%(asctime)s %(message)s',
                    handlers=[logging.StreamHandler()])

Then all logs are in the file and nothing is displayed in the console

Answer 1

I can't reproduce it on Python 3.3. The messages are written both to the screen and the 'example2.log'. On Python <3.3 it creates the file but it is empty.

The code:

from logging_tree import printout  # pip install logging_tree
printout()

shows that FileHandler() is not attached to the root logger on Python <3.3.

The docs for logging.basicConfig() say that handlers argument is added in Python 3.3. The handlers argument isn't mentioned in Python 3.2 documentation.