How about simply wrap the handler code in a function:

import os def myLogger(name): logger = logging.getLogger(name) logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG) handler = logging.FileHandler(os.path.join('/some/path/', name + '.log'), 'w') logger.addHandler(handler) return logger log_hm = myLogger('healthmonitor') log_hm.info("Testing Log") # Should log to /some/path/healthmonitor.log 

How about simply wrap the handler code in a function:

import os def myLogger(name): logger = logging.getLogger(name) logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG) handler = logging.FileHandler(os.path.join('/some/path/', name + '.log'), 'w') logger.addHandler(handler) return logger log_hm = myLogger('healthmonitor') log_hm.info("Testing Log") # Should log to /some/path/healthmonitor.log 

To prevent creating duplicate handlers, care needs to be taken to ensure that myLogger(name) is only called once per name. Usually that means putting myLogger(name) inside

if __name__ == '__main__': log_hm = myLogger('healthmonitor') 

of the main script.

How about simply wrap the handler code in a function:

import os def myLogger(name): logger=logging.getLogger(name) logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG) handler=logging.FileHandler(os.path.join('/some/path/',name+'.log'),'w') logger.addHandler(handler) return logger log_hm = myLogger('healthmonitor') log_hm.info("Testing Log") # Should log to /some/path/healthmonitor.log 

How about simply wrap the handler code in a function:

import os def myLogger(name): logger = logging.getLogger(name) logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG) handler = logging.FileHandler(os.path.join('/some/path/', name + '.log'), 'w') logger.addHandler(handler) return logger log_hm = myLogger('healthmonitor') log_hm.info("Testing Log") # Should log to /some/path/healthmonitor.log