What is the standard way for setting up the logging system (formatting, level), before modules are imported? The reason I want to do this is that during the import phase complex data structures are loaded, and progress is shown with loggers. But since the logging level is not set, I do not even see those log entries (level is by default WARNING) I could do a hack like this: import logging logging.basicConfig(...) import mymodule But I do not like running code before importing stuff. Isn't there an accepted way to "pre-configure" the logging system from outside the application, with env variables or any such alternative? Something like: LOG_LEVEL=INFO LOG_FORMAT="..." python main.py I can of course evaluate those env vars myself (and at that point my hack above is good enough), but I would like to reuse existing ideas before implementing my own solution. Continue reading...
