The analysis of sequencing data (at least in the first steps) is often a matter of starting multiple scripts one after an other. I found out that to log the stdout and the stderr with python was not that much obivous for me. I struggled quite a bit with the logging module but finally I came with the following. import os import subprocess import logging import logging.handlers import datetime as dt class ShellLaunchAndLog: ''' logging of shell commands output ''' def __init__(self): self. Read more