[update: This post has been corrected, thanks to my commenters for your feedback]
Every Django management command gets the verbosity option for free. You may recognize this:
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v {0,1,2,3}, --verbosity {0,1,2,3}
Verbosity level; 0=minimal output, 1=normal output,
2=verbose output, 3=very verbose outputWe rarely use it because doing so usually means lots of if statements scattered through our code to support this. If you’re writing quick n’ dirty code, this may look familiar in your management commands:
if options.get('verbosity') == 3:
print('hi')In a recent Django project, I came up with a few lines of boilerplate to support the verbosity option, assuming you’re using also the logging library and not relying on print:
import logging
class Command(BaseCommand):
def handle(self, *args, **options):
verbosity = options.get('verbosity')
if verbosity == 0:
logging.getLogger('my_command').setLevel(logging.WARN)
elif verbosity == 1: # default
logging.getLogger('my_command').setLevel(logging.INFO)
elif verbosity > 1:
logging.getLogger('my_command').setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
if verbosity > 2:
logging.getLogger().setLevel(logging.DEBUG)So what does this do?
At the default verbosity, 1, I display INFO logging statements from my command. Increasing verbosity to 2, I also display DEBUG logs from my command. And going all the way to verbosity 3, I also enable all logging statements that reach the root logger.
Go forth and log!
You should use `verbosity = options.get(‘verbosity’)`. No `int()` needed, this is guarded by argparse.
You have a typo; you are using `=` instead of `==`.
“`lang=python, counterexample
if options[‘verbosity’] = 3:
print ‘hi’
“`
Also, since options[‘verbosity’] contains strings, the following logic will never evaluate as `True`.
“`lang=python, counterexample
if options[‘verbosity’] == 3:
print ‘hi’
“`
—-
One of the following two examples would work.
“`lang=python
if options[‘verbosity’] == ‘3’:
print ‘hi’
“`
“`lang=python
if int(options[‘verbosity’]) == 3:
print ‘hi’
“`
Seems like this is worth adding as part of every script you write. You could pretty easily do it either as a mixin or by simply overriding BaseCommand with VerboseBaseCommand.