Fixed default log level and added date info to log messages

- log level bug: #32
- date feature: #6

fastHistory/__init__.py

@@ -250,11 +250,15 @@ def retrieve_parameters_from_bash_hook(arg1=None):
 
 def handle_arguments(logger_console, config_reader, path_data_folder, path_code_folder):
 	# set logging (this setting is applied globally for all logging calls from now on)
-	logging.basicConfig(filename=path_data_folder + NAME_LOG_FILE, level=config_reader.get_log_level())
+	if config_reader.get_log_level() == 'NOTSET' or config_reader.get_log_level() == 'NONE':
+		logging.disable(logging.CRITICAL)
+	else:
+		logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s',
+			datefmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S',
+			filename=path_data_folder + NAME_LOG_FILE,
+			level=config_reader.get_log_level())
 	logging.debug("bash input: %s" % str(sys.argv))
-
 	logger_console.set_theme(config_reader.get_theme())
-
 	args_len = len(sys.argv)
 	# check number of parameters
 	if args_len == 1:

fastHistory/config/configReader.py

@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ class used to read the configuration file
     THEME_AZURE = "AZURE"
     THEME_GREEN = "GREEN"
 
-    _ALLOWED_LOG_LEVELS = ['CRITICAL', 'ERROR', 'WARNING', 'INFO', 'DEBUG', 'NOTSET']
+    # NOTSET may be used by old configutation files ( <= 2.1.5) and it must be considered equal to NONE
+    _ALLOWED_LOG_LEVELS = ['CRITICAL', 'ERROR', 'WARNING', 'INFO', 'DEBUG', 'NOTSET', 'NONE']
     _ALLOWED_THEME = [THEME_AZURE, THEME_GREEN]
 
     _config = None

fastHistory/config/default_fastHistory.conf

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 #################################################################
 [GENERAL]
 # general settings
-# log options: NOTSET > CRITICAL > ERROR > WARNING > INFO > DEBUG 
+# log options: NONE, CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, DEBUG 
 # theme options: AZURE or GREEN
-# tags column options: from 0 (%) to 50 (%)
+# tags column size: from 0 (%) to 50 (%)
 #################################################################
-LOG_LEVEL           = NOTSET
+LOG_LEVEL           = NONE
 THEME               = AZURE
 TAGS_COLUMN_SIZE    = 35