Logging in Behave BDD framework

Question

I'm new with BDD in Python and I'm trying to create a framework. As per the documentation, I've created the environment.py file and in that there is a method:

def before_all(context):
    context.config.setup_logging(configfile="test.ini", filename="AppLog.log")

But I'm not sure what I need to add in my steps (step methods) so that my AppLog.log file will have the logs. Do I need to initialize a logger in my steps file? If yes, how this setup_logging will be used there?

If a sample code can be provided then it will be really helpful.

Thanks & Regards, Sunil

Answer 1

In order to write the logs from within your steps into the file, you might try running behave by giving the parameter no-logcapture , the default behaviour of behave is to show log records only when a test fails.

From within your code, you can use logging as usual.

#sample.py
import logging

logging.info('This is a log message')

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