How to use python logging setLoggerClass?

Question

I want to add a custom logger to a python application I am working on. I think that the logging module intends to support this kind of customization but I don't really see how it works with the typical way of using the logging module. Normally, you would create a logger object in a module like,

import logging
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

However, somewhere in the application, probably the entry-point, I will have to tell the logging module to use my logger class,

logging.setLoggerClass(MyLogger)

However, this is often going to be called after modules have been imported and the logger objects are already allocated. I can think of a couple of ways to work around this problem (using a manager class to register logger allocations or calling getLogger() for each log record -- yuk), but this does not feel right and I wanted to know what the right way of doing this is.

Answer 1

Any logging initialisation / settings / customisation should be done before the application code runs. You can do this by putting it in the __init__.py file of your main application directory (this means it'll run before any of your modules are imported / read).

You can also put it in a settings.py module and importing that module as the first thing in your application. As long as the logging setup code runs before any getLogger calls are made then you're good.