How do I write to the console in Google App Engine?

Question

Often when I am coding I just like to print little things (mostly the current value of variables) out to console. I don\'t see anything like this for Google App Engine, alth

Answer 1

If you're using a more recent version of the Python Development Server (releases > 1.7.6, or Mar 2013 and later), these seem to be the right steps to use:

1. Include the following in your script,

   import logging logging.debug("something I want to log")

2. And per this docs page, set a flag by going to Edit > Application Settings > Launch Settings > Extra Command Line Flags, and adding,

   --log_level=debug