How to log error to file, and not fail on exception

Question

I am downloading a file from the net, and it fails even though I am doing:

for p in query:

try:

except IOError as e:
   print e;

If th

Answer 1

You could use the logging module:

import logging
logging.basicConfig(filename='/tmp/myapp.log', level=logging.DEBUG, 
                    format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(name)s %(message)s')
logger=logging.getLogger(__name__)

try:
    1/0
except ZeroDivisionError as err:
    logger.error(err)

Running the script writes in /tmp/myapp.log:

% cat /tmp/myapp.log 
2010-08-01 17:50:45,960 ERROR __main__ integer division or modulo by zero