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Complete Python Logging Guide: Best Practices & Implementation

In Python, proper logging is crucial for effective debugging, application behavior insights, performance monitoring, security incident tracking, and maintenance efficiency. A basic logging setup can be achieved using logging.basicConfig. Django and Flask have their own logging systems, with Django requiring a comprehensive setup and Flask leveraging Python's logging with middleware enhancements. For microservices, distributed tracing and correlation IDs are essential, and for background tasks, ensuring proper log handling and rotation is necessary.
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