Railway•17mo ago

Running discord.py on Railway, but print statements are not output as logs.

Although I should be doing stdout with print statements, for some reason they are not output in the log. For example, the following source code does output:

#!/usr/bin/env python3.6
import pymysql.cursors

con = pymysql.connect(
    host = 'contap',
    user = 'root',
    password = '',
    database = 'railway',
    port = ,
    cursorclass=pymysql.cursors.DictCursor
)

cursor = con.cursor()

cursor.execute("select * from server_configs;")
result = cursor.fetchall()
print(result)
print(result[0]['night_base_time'])

#!/usr/bin/env python3.6
import pymysql.cursors

con = pymysql.connect(
    host = 'contap',
    user = 'root',
    password = '',
    database = 'railway',
    port = ,
    cursorclass=pymysql.cursors.DictCursor
)

cursor = con.cursor()

cursor.execute("select * from server_configs;")
result = cursor.fetchall()
print(result)
print(result[0]['night_base_time'])

However, when I switch to code that includes discord.py, there is no output. Even if I pasted the above code at the very top, the result was the same. I can't provide all the code for discord.py, but I will provide a part of it. When run on a CentOS 8 environment, the print statements are displayed correctly.

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'{client.user} has connected to Discord!')
    for guild in client.guilds:
        server_configs[guild.id] = default_config.copy()
        postable_channel_found = False
        for channel in guild.channels:
            if isinstance(channel, discord.TextChannel):
                perms = channel.permissions_for(guild.me)
                if not perms.send_messages:
                    continue
                if not postable_channel_found:
                    server_configs[guild.id]['channel_id'] = channel.id
                    server_configs[guild.id]['channel'] = channel
                    print(f"Default post channel for {guild.name} set to {channel.name} with ID {channel.id}.")
                    await channel.send(" has started. Please input your settings.")  # Send message to channel
                    postable_channel_found = True
                else:
                    break

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'{client.user} has connected to Discord!')
    for guild in client.guilds:
        server_configs[guild.id] = default_config.copy()
        postable_channel_found = False
        for channel in guild.channels:
            if isinstance(channel, discord.TextChannel):
                perms = channel.permissions_for(guild.me)
                if not perms.send_messages:
                    continue
                if not postable_channel_found:
                    server_configs[guild.id]['channel_id'] = channel.id
                    server_configs[guild.id]['channel'] = channel
                    print(f"Default post channel for {guild.name} set to {channel.name} with ID {channel.id}.")
                    await channel.send(" has started. Please input your settings.")  # Send message to channel
                    postable_channel_found = True
                else:
                    break

Is there a problem where print statements are not output when using discord.py? Or do I need to set something up? I would appreciate it if you could let me know. Thank you in advance.

Solution:

but yeah Adam is right, python print statements are buggy in docker environments, there's 3 things you can do 1. what Adam said, flush=True 2. set a service variable PYTHONUNBUFFERED = 1 (this is what is done by nixpacks) 3. run python with python -u instead...

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Percy•17mo ago

Project ID: f83f8d1f-6778-472e-9271-de7e9f261bb6

IrisPumilaOP•17mo ago

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Adam•17mo ago

Python’s print statements can be buggy, can you try adding flush=True to your statements?

Brody•17mo ago

are you building with a dockerfile?

IrisPumilaOP•17mo ago

yes, dockerfile is here FROM python:3.6 WORKDIR /bot COPY requirements.txt /bot/ RUN pip install -r requirements.txt COPY . /bot CMD python main.py

Brody•17mo ago

doesn't look like it's doing anything nixpacks wouldn't do by default, try removing your dockerfile and let railway build it with nixpacks

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Brody•17mo ago

IrisPumilaOP•17mo ago

As Adam said, I was able to output with flush=True. However, it's a hassle to write this for every print statement. The method you suggested, setting the environment variable to PYTHONUNBUFFERED = 1, also worked. Thank you. I will consider this issue resolved now.

Brody•17mo ago

glad we could help 🙂

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Running discord.py on Railway, but print statements are not output as logs.