Python logging: use milliseconds in time format

Question

By default logging.Formatter(\'%(asctime)s\') prints with the following format:

2011-06-09 10:54:40,638

where 638 is the milli

Answer 1

tl;dr for folks looking here for an ISO formatted date:

instead of using something like '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%03d%z', create your own class as @unutbu indicated. Here's one for iso date format:

import logging
from time import gmtime, strftime

class ISOFormatter(logging.Formatter):
    def formatTime(self, record, datefmt=None):
        t = strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S", gmtime(record.created))
        z = strftime("%z",gmtime(record.created))
        s = "%s.%03d%s" % (t, record.msecs,z)        
        return s

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

console = logging.StreamHandler()
logger.addHandler(console)

formatter = ISOFormatter(fmt='%(asctime)s - %(module)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
console.setFormatter(formatter)

logger.debug('Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.')
#2020-10-23T17:25:48.310-0800 -  - DEBUG - Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.