Turning off logging in Paramiko

Question

I am using the ssh client provided by Paramiko to create a function call remoteSSH (the file name is remoteConnect.py):

import paramiko         


        

Answer 1

You're setting the root logger's level to WARN (should be WARNING) in remoteConnect.py, and to INFO in getdata.py. I would advise that you avoid setting levels on the root logger in random modules in your application: instead, do this in all your modules where you want to use logging:

import logging

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

and use logger.debug(...), etc. in that module. Then, in one specific place in your application (typically in your logic called from if __name__ == '__main__':, set the levels and handlers that you want, either programmatically via basicConfig or a set of API calls to add handlers, formatters etc., or through the use of a declarative configuration (e.g. using fileConfig or dictConfig APIs - documented here).

Answer 2

Paramiko names its logggers. It seems to function as the logging modules in other languages (JDK logging comes to mind) do.

I've found that

logging.getLogger("paramiko").setLevel(logging.WARNING) helps.

(You can put this inside the module that's importing paramiko - just make sure the 'logging' module is enabled as well).

It took me a while to figure out how to do this (in fact, it wasn't until I actually started dealing with Java logging that this answer came to mind)

Answer 3

Try this before setting up logger2:

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.WARN)