My intention is to log into a file in great detail and verbose formatting (timestamp, logger name, etc.). log into the Python Interactor in less verbose mode (less verbose formatting, only higher logging levels, etc.). This can be achieved by defining two handlers in the logging module of Python:…

In the Error Log, I see that each logging to the file results in two log events in Slicer. It demonstrates that the above-mentioned redirection happens. [SlicerLog]

Related to some of this double logging I have work-in-progress PRs from awhile ago that I haven’t returned to, but there was a lot of discussion on them on improved logging. BUG: Fix duplicate python logging messages in the log for regular users S…

Thank you for the PR links, good to see that I am not the only one annoyed by the double logging. Is this improvement still on the table for a future Slicer release?

Yeah improvement in that area is still possible, but it’s not currently in a specific Slicer GitHub milestone. For that specific work I did it in my personal free time so when I have some more of it I may pick it back up again.

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How to disable automatic logging into the Python Interactor?

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