use logging instead of prints;

backend/app_be/apps.py

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 import sys
+import logging
 
 from django.apps import AppConfig
 
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 class AppBeConfig(AppConfig):
     name = 'app_be'
@@ -12,4 +15,4 @@ class AppBeConfig(AppConfig):
             from app_be.views.twitter_bot import twitter_bot
             twitter_bot1 = twitter_bot()
             twitter_bot1.start()
-            print("bot started")
+            logger.debug("bot started")

backend/app_be/settings.py

@@ -182,26 +182,11 @@ LOGGING = {
             'level': 'DEBUG',
             'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
             'formatter': 'verbose'
+        }
     },
-        'logfile': {
-            'level': 'DEBUG',
-            'class': 'logging.FileHandler',
-            'filename': BASE_DIR + "/../logfile",
-            'formatter': 'verbose'
-        },
-    },
-
     'loggers': {
-        'rdg': {
+        'app_be': {
-            'handlers': ['console', 'logfile'],
+            'handlers': ['console'],
-            'level': 'DEBUG',
-        },
-        'rdg_rest': {
-            'handlers': ['console', 'logfile'],
-            'level': 'DEBUG',
-        },
-        'rdg_angular': {
-            'handlers': ['console', 'logfile'],
             'level': 'DEBUG',
         },
     },

backend/app_be/views/rest_api.py

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ def authorize(request):
     logger.debug('Validating request: {}'.format(request))
 
     if 'Authorization' not in request.headers:
-        print(f"Authorization header missing")
         logger.error(f"Authorization header missing")
         return None
 
@@ -38,11 +37,9 @@ def authorize(request):
             if 'sub' in payload:
                 return payload['sub']
     except PyJwtException as e:
-        print(f"Exception caught. Error: {e}")
         logger.error(f"Exception caught. Error: {e}")
         return None
     except UnicodeDecodeError as e2:
-        print(f"Exception caught. Error: {e2}")
         logger.error(f"Exception caught. Error: {e2}")
         return None
     return None

backend/app_be/views/twitter_api.py

@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
+import logging
+
 from datetime import datetime
 
 import twitter
 import os
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
 
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 load_dotenv()
 
 api = twitter.Api(consumer_key=os.getenv('TWITTER_API_KEY'),
@@ -16,18 +20,18 @@ class twitter_api:
 
     @staticmethod
     def check_credentials():
-        print(api.VerifyCredentials())
+        logger.debug("{}".format(api.VerifyCredentials()))
 
     @staticmethod
     def get_last_six_tweets():
 
         last_six = api.GetUserTimeline(screen_name='waecmg4',count=6,exclude_replies=True,include_rts=False)
-        print(type(last_six))
+        logger.debug("type(last_six): {}".format(type(last_six)))
 
         response = []
 
         for tweet in last_six:
-            print(tweet)
+            logger.debug("Tweet: {}".format(tweet))
 
             parsed_date = datetime.strptime(tweet.created_at,"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S +0000 %Y")
             tweet_date = datetime.strftime(parsed_date,"%d.%m.%y %H:%M")
@@ -50,7 +54,7 @@ class twitter_api:
         response = []
 
         for tweet in last_six:
-            print(tweet)
+            logger.debug("Tweet: {}".format(tweet))
 
             parsed_date = datetime.strptime(tweet.created_at, "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S +0000 %Y")
             tweet_date = datetime.strftime(parsed_date, "%d.%m.%y %H:%M")

backend/app_be/views/twitter_bot.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import logging
 import threading
 from datetime import datetime
 import time
@@ -7,6 +8,8 @@ from app_be.views.twitter_api import twitter_api
 import feedparser
 from dateutil import parser
 
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 class twitter_bot(threading.Thread):
 
@@ -19,7 +22,7 @@ class twitter_bot(threading.Thread):
 
         while True:
 
-            print("Looking for new results in active feeds")
+            logger.debug("Looking for new results in active feeds")
             feed_set = Feed.objects.filter(active=True)
 
             for feed in feed_set:
@@ -42,7 +45,7 @@ class twitter_bot(threading.Thread):
 
                     if search_keywords(keywords, current, feed.match_all_keywords):
 
-                        print("Keyword found")
+                        logger.debug("Keyword found")
 
                         # preparing tweet
                         new_tweet = Tweet()
@@ -60,8 +63,8 @@ class twitter_bot(threading.Thread):
                         # if tweet not in db yet
                         if not Tweet.objects.filter(text=new_tweet.text):
                             # call twitter api to post tweet and store to db
-                            print("Posting update on Twitter")
+                            logger.debug("Posting update on Twitter")
-                            print(new_tweet)
+                            logger.debug("new_tweet: {}".format(new_tweet))
 
                             twitter_api.post_update(new_tweet.text, new_tweet.url)
                             new_tweet.save()