logging to file

[khoivan88]

HI,

First of all, thank you for this wonderful library, I have been using Rich for several scripts now and it is wonderful. I really like the Rich handle for logging. I was wondering if there is a simple way to direct the logging with Rich to file output without printing out to console.

For, what I am doing is:

# Set logger using Rich: https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/logging.html
logging.basicConfig(
    level="INFO",
    format="%(message)s",
    datefmt="[%X]",
    handlers=[RichHandler(rich_tracebacks=True)]
)
log = logging.getLogger("rich")

# Create handlers
LOG_FILE.unlink(missing_ok=True)    # Remove old log file, otherwise new log info is appended
f_handler = logging.FileHandler(LOG_FILE)
f_handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

# Create formatters and add it to handlers
f_format = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
f_handler.setFormatter(f_format)
# Add handlers to the logger
log.addHandler(f_handler)

and while the code above works, it also prints the logging to console as well.

I feel like I am missing something extremely simple here.

Thank you so much!

[willmcgugan]

You can construct a Console with a file.

console = Console(file=open('log.txt'))

And then you can pass the console to the handler.

RichHandler(console=console)

[khoivan88]

Worked like a champ! Thank you so much @willmcgugan