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template python scripts

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This shows an example of how to use the timedRotatingFileHandler to rotate log files in Python.

Example

Run the Python script 'myapp.py'. This will generate a log entry in the log/ directory. Run the script again after 1 second. It will rotate off the previous log file.

  python myapp.py

You can change the frequency of log rotation by changing this variable in logging_config.ini. This example means the log file is rotated off every second, it keeps 5 old log files at most.

args=(os.environ['mylogfile'], 's', 1, 5)