Add option to set default log-level

[lukas-bednar]

It could be useful when you want to reduce logs to be captured for whole pytest session.

[abusalimov]

Thank you, and sorry this took that long for you to get feedback.
Does the name default_level imply that there is some other, "custom" level?

[lukas-bednar]

@abusalimov you can always change log-level by using

with caplog.at_level(logging.ERROR):
    pass

but I don't mind to change name for that.

[abusalimov]

Ah, I see. This is a subject to change (#24) though.

Can we postpone this change a bit? I have some free time now, and I'm going to merge the stalled PRs to get them over with.

[lukas-bednar]

No problem, take as much time you need (: ... I can rebase any time or I am also ok if you cover it in your change ... just let me know. Thanks

[abusalimov]

Sure! I appreciate your understanding :)

[dusktreader]

This would be very nice. However, it would also be nice to be able to set the default level inside a session-scoped pytest fixture. My flask app does a lot of logging in the setup that is hooked in session-wide fixtures, and I would love to be able to supress DEBUG output for that.

[pohmelie]

I wonder how this obvious feature is still missing!

[lukas-bednar]

I think this feature is covered by options log_file_level & log_cli_level ?
@abusalimov could you please confirm ?

[abusalimov]

Sorry guys for making these stale, but just don't have enough spare time to sort these out, neither do @eisensheng or @The-Compiler, I'm afraid.

@lukas-bednar Can't tell for sure, it's better to check this in the source code.

[pohmelie]

@lukas-bednar
As far as I understand, log_cli_level affects only "live" logging (don't really get what it is). I see no difference in output logs on test fail between log_cli_level = ERROR and log_cli_level = DEBUG line in pytest.ini.

[lukas-bednar]

since it was merged to pytest core, it is not relevant. closing ...