python does not release filehandles to logfile

Question

I have an application which has to run a number of simulation runs. I want to setup a logging mechanisme where all logrecords are logged in a general.log, and all logs for a

Answer 1

I was using an interactive Python environment (Spyder). Apparently, Spyder uses logging internally. So, logging.shutdown() does not produce the desired effect. The next execution of the same program doubled log records, the 3rd execution tripled them, etc. Handlers are apparently not removed by shutdown() in this environment. Also, I did not disrupt Spyder in any way by issuing an explicit shutdown() call. Puzzling.

Martijn's code to explicitly close and remove the handlers, one at a time, did work in the Spyder environment.