SO Colored Logging Formatter Example files

app.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Copyright (c) 2017 Kurt Jacobson
# License: https://kcj.mit-license.org/@2017

import logging
from colored_log import ColoredFormatter

# Create top level logger
log = logging.getLogger("main")

# Add console handler using our custom ColoredFormatter
ch = logging.StreamHandler()
ch.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
cf = ColoredFormatter("[%(name)s][%(levelname)s]  %(message)s (%(filename)s:%(lineno)d)")
ch.setFormatter(cf)
log.addHandler(ch)

# Add file handler
fh = logging.FileHandler('app.log')
fh.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
ff = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
fh.setFormatter(ff)
log.addHandler(fh)

# Set log level
log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

# Log some stuff
log.debug("app has started")
log.info("Logging to 'app.log' in the script dir")
log.warning("This is my last warning, take heed")
log.error("This is an error")
log.critical("He's dead, Jim")

# Import a sub-module 
import sub_module

colored_log.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

#  Copyright (c) 2017 Kurt Jacobson

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#  SOFTWARE.

from copy import copy
from logging import Formatter

MAPPING = {
    'DEBUG'   : 37, # white
    'INFO'    : 36, # cyan
    'WARNING' : 33, # yellow
    'ERROR'   : 31, # red
    'CRITICAL': 41, # white on red bg
}

PREFIX = '\033['
SUFFIX = '\033[0m'

class ColoredFormatter(Formatter):

    def __init__(self, patern):
        Formatter.__init__(self, patern)

    def format(self, record):
        colored_record = copy(record)
        levelname = colored_record.levelname
        seq = MAPPING.get(levelname, 37) # default white
        colored_levelname = ('{0}{1}m{2}{3}') \
            .format(PREFIX, seq, levelname, SUFFIX)
        colored_record.levelname = colored_levelname
        return Formatter.format(self, colored_record)


# ********* Example Usage *********

def demo():

    import logging

    # Create logger
    log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

    # Add console handler
    ch = logging.StreamHandler()
    ch.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
    cf = ColoredFormatter("[%(name)s][%(levelname)s]  %(message)s (%(filename)s:%(lineno)d)")
    ch.setFormatter(cf)
    log.addHandler(ch)

    # Add file handler
    fh = logging.FileHandler('demo.log')
    fh.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
    ff = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
    fh.setFormatter(ff)
    log.addHandler(fh)

    # Set log level
    log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

    # Log some stuff
    log.debug("Logging demo has started")
    log.info("Logging to 'demo.log' in the script dir")
    log.warning("This is my last warning, take heed")
    log.error("This is an error")
    log.critical("He's dead, Jim")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    demo()

sub_module.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Copyright (c) 2017 Kurt Jacobson
# License: https://kcj.mit-license.org/@2017

import logging
log = logging.getLogger('main.sub_module')

log.debug("Hello from the sub module")

U have a version made via colorama perhaps? Since that won't work in standard CMD in Windows