How can INFO and DEBUG logging message be sent to stdout and higher level message to stderr

Question

Is there an easy way with python's logging module to send messages with a DEBUG or INFO level and the one with a higher level to different streams?

Is a good idea anyway?

Answer 1

Yes. You must define multiple handlers for your logging.

http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html#logging-to-multiple-destinations

Answer 2

Not necessarily a good idea (it could be confusing to see info and debug messages mixed in with normal output!), but feasible, since you can have multiple handler objects and a custom filter for each of them, in order to pick and choose which log records each handler gets to handle.