Logging basicConfig not creating log file when I run in PyCharm?

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I encountered same issue and found none of the answers previously provided here would work. Maybe this issue had been solved long ago to Ramnath Reddy, but I could not find the correct answer anywhere online.

Luckily, I found a solution from a colleague’s code by adding the following lines before logging.basicConfig().

# Remove all handlers associated with the root logger object.
for handler in logging.root.handlers[:]:
    logging.root.removeHandler(handler)

Try and see if it helps for whomever had the same issue.

Python 3.8: A new option, force, has been made available to automatically remove the root handlers while calling basicConfig().
For example:

logging.basicConfig(filename="ramexample.log", level=logging.DEBUG, force=True)`

See logging.basicConfig parameters:

force: If this keyword argument is specified as true, any existing handlers attached to the root logger are removed and closed, before carrying out the configuration as specified by the other arguments.

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