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F4Tornado
F4Tornado

Reputation: 183

How do I prevent a python server from writing to the terminal window?

I need to run a Python web server, while still taking inputs from the user, but when someone visits the website, the information logged to the terminal window is on the same line as the input, making it look like this:enter image description here

I've tried setting the thread the the servers on to daemon mode, I've tried logging.getLogger("socketserver").setLevel(logging.CRITICAL), I've tried logger.propagation = False, and logger.disable = True

This is my server code:

os.chdir("docs")
port = 8980
Handler = http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
with socketserver.TCPServer(("", port), Handler) as httpd:
   httpd.serve_forever()

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3052

Answers (3)

scp314
scp314

Reputation: 36

I wasn't quite clear if you wanted to remove the logging message on the command line, or redirect logging to file.

If you're wanting to redirect to file, you can use os.write to print to file.

If you're wanting to turn off the logging messages, and you can't get them off the command line, you could assign that logging to a nullHandler. Something a bit like:

noop = logging.NullHandler()
log.addHandler(noop)
# nothing happens here
log.info('message that will not be logged')

Using a nullHandler is a bit of a large solution, as the ideal would be to have logging going to a .log file for reference, not turning it off or skipping for certain messages.

Upvotes: 0

cody
cody

Reputation: 11157

Subclass SimpleHTTPRequestHandler and override the log_message method to do nothing:

class QuietHandler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    def log_message(self, format, *args):
        pass


with socketserver.TCPServer(("", 8980), QuietHandler) as httpd:
    httpd.serve_forever()

Upvotes: 7

user2704561
user2704561

Reputation: 23

One thing you can try is piping the output into a file, if the file size ever becomes a concern I would try piping it to nul, like: python3 myserver.py 2> nul

Upvotes: 1

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