Logging

Learn about the importance of logging debug, informational, and error messages.

An introduction to logging

Logging is the means by which we keep track of events that occur during the execution of a program. Whether we realize it or not, we’ve all done logging in our programs in one way or another. We all know about the Python print statement. Every Python programmer starts off debugging by writing print statements throughout their code to print informational and error messages and display variable values. Let’s take a look at an example.

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