[Minor Feature Request] have logs files with date and time based filename and clean up routine

[OzzyHelix]

What new feature would you like to see?

This is a simply request. I would like it if the logs filenames contained the date and time of their creation and then maybe have a routine that every time the bot is started up. It deletes logs older than say 7 days for example. Overwriting the existing log file has been a pet peeve of mine for a while. Having log files with date and time based filenames and a routine to clean older logs up would fix a lot of my problems with the logging system. I hope you will consider this and maybe make it a feature thank you

• Ozzy

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[OzzyHelix]

my goal with this is to improve small Quality of life stuff with the bot this has been an annoyance for me for some time

[itsTheFae]

So Python logging does have a file handler that theoretically will do what you want, essentially making the log system handle rotation of the log files as-needed, but only triggered by logs being emitted in the first place rather than the current implementation in dev which only bothers to rotate files at shutdown, when logging is finished.

[OzzyHelix]

I will retract this because python run.py --logs-kept 100 suites my needs perfectly

[itsTheFae]

I will retract this because python run.py --logs-kept 100 suites my needs perfectly

And for setting the date format using --log-rotate-fmt you can use the table on this page to understand the '%' formats that are available for use: https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior