Python Logging Error

Question

So I'm using the python logging module for the first time, and I'm receiving an error I cannot find any information on.

At the start of my file, I have the following:

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, filename='logs', filemode='a+', format='[%(asctime)-15s] %(levelname)-8s %(message)s')

The line that's throwing the error:

logging.info(f'Downloading: {file_name}\t{local_file_path}\t{os.path.abspath(local_file_path)}')

--- Logging error ---
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python36\lib\logging\__init__.py", line 996, in emit
    self.flush()
  File "C:\Python36\lib\logging\__init__.py", line 976, in flush
    self.stream.flush()
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
Call stack:
  File "Main.py", line 81, in <module>
    main()
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 722, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 697, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 895, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 535, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "Main.py", line 32, in main
    work_tv(ftp, ext)
  File "Main.py", line 76, in work_tv
    logging.info(f'Downloading: {file_name}\t{local_file_path}\t{os.path.abspath(local_file_path)}')
Message: 'Downloading: Preacher S02E13\t./Preacher/Season 2/Preacher S02E13.mkv\tZ:\\TV\\Preacher\\Season 2\\Preacher S02E13.mkv'
Arguments: ()

I don't understand this error. The first 8 times it ran successfully without a problem. However the last two, it has thrown this identical error. Can someone please explain it to me.

Answer 1

The fact that it failed on a self.stream.flush() implies that the file being written to (presumably logs) has already been closed or is not writable for some other reason.

Update: If you need to deal with this, subclass the handler and override the emit() method to do what you need to recover from the error.