# How to disable automatic logging into the Python Interactor?

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-disable-automatic-logging-into-the-python-interactor/23734>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** python\
**Created:** [June 6, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-disable-automatic-logging-into-the-python-interactor/23734 "2022-06-06T13:26:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 9:19pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-disable-automatic-logging-into-the-python-interactor/23734/6 "2022-10-28T21:19:23Z")

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To follow up on this thread, please see the following thread for an update about python logging

> [@New feature: Python console displays more log messages](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/new-feature-python-console-displays-more-log-messages/25739):
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> Until now, the Python console only displayed Python outputs and Python log messages. Therefore, if a Python command executed a VTK method and that VTK method logged an error or warning, it was not immediately visible for the developer (the developer had to notice the change in the log icon, click on it, and scroll down to see the new message). In latest Slicer Preview Release (Slicer 5.1.0-2022-10-15 and later), the Python console displays log messages from all sources - Python, Qt, VTK, ITK. F…

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