My first bet at the culprit is the space between the % and (message)s, they should be together like you have them for asctime.
-----Original Message----- From: Python-list [mailto:python-list-bounces+david.raymond=tomtom....@python.org] On Behalf Of synch1...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 12:12 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: [SPAM] Type error: not enough arguments for format string Importance: Low I'm just trying to follow along with the logging tutorial documentation and I am getting this error: import logging logging.basicConfig(format= '%(asctime)s % (message)s', datefmt='%m%d%Y %I:%M:%S %p') logging.warning('is when this event was logged') Error: C:\Users\Malcy\PycharmProjects\Udemy\venv\Scripts\python.exe C:/Users/Malcy/PycharmProjects/logging/logger.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Malcy\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda2\Lib\logging\__init__.py", line 861, in emit msg = self.format(record) File "C:\Users\Malcy\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda2\Lib\logging\__init__.py", line 734, in format return fmt.format(record) File "C:\Users\Malcy\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda2\Lib\logging\__init__.py", line 469, in format s = self._fmt % record.__dict__ TypeError: not enough arguments for format string Logged from file logger.py, line 6 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
