Filtering logging messages in Python scripts

All messages printed by the Hyperion Python routines use the built-in logging module. This means that it is possible to filter messages based on importance. Messages can have one of several levels:

• DEBUG (10): detailed information, typically of interest only when diagnosing problems.
• INFO (20): confirmation that things are working as expected
• WARNING (30): An indication that something unexpected happened, or indicative of some problem in the near future. The program is still working as expected.
• ERROR (40): due to a more serious problem, the program has not been able to perform some function (but no exception is being raised).
• CRITICAL (50): a serious error, indicating that the program itself may be unable to continue running (but no exception is being raised).

Note that the CRITICAL level is unlikely to be used, since critical errors should raise Exceptions in practice.

It is possible to specify a threshold for logging messages. Messages which are less severe than this threshold will be ignored. The default threshold in Hyperion is 20 (INFO), indicating that all the above messages will be shown except DEBUG. Using 40 for example would cause only ERROR and CRITICAL messages to be shown.

By directly accessing the Hyperion logger

If you want to filter different messages in different scripts, you can directly access the logger and set the level manually:

from hyperion.util.logger import logger
logger.setLevel(10)

Using the Hyperion configuration file

If you want to always filter the same messages for all projects on a given computer, you can create a .hyperionrc file in your home directory, containing the following entries related to logging:

[logging]
color:yes
level:0