How to configure logging to syslog in Python?

Change the line to this: handler = SysLogHandler(address=”/dev/log”) This works for me import logging import logging.handlers my_logger = logging.getLogger(‘MyLogger’) my_logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG) handler = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address=”/dev/log”) my_logger.addHandler(handler) my_logger.debug(‘this is debug’) my_logger.critical(‘this is critical’)