Is there a way to incorporate Icecream as a default output function?

[SuperPauly]

I've seen this issue #541 but since it's quite old was wondering if there is a newer way to use Icecream pretty output?

My logger.debug() mode dumps quite a lot of dictionarys, lists, json strings and objects and it would be much much nice to read it in a structured way.

Thanks.

[jkpjkpjkp]

my intuition is with the availability of ic.format() it will be quite straightforward to wrap the 2?

or is there sophisticated usage of either tool required in your usecase that necessitates a low-level merge?

[Delgan]

Hi.

I don't know if this exactly meets your needs, but note that I plan to extend the logging functions so that keyword arguments are automatically logged.

logger.debug("Message", foo=123)
# Planned output: 2025-07-27 18:03:17.115 +02:00 | DEBUG    | __main__:<module>:4 - Message (foo=123)

However, this has not yet been implemented, and it'll be less advanced formatting that the one provided by icecream.

As suggested by @jkpjkpjkp, I think the simplest solution is just to use ic.format() like so:

from icecream import ic
from loguru import logger

def foo(i):
    return i + 333

logger.debug("Message: {}", ic.format(foo(123)))

The icecream library is doing some introspection magic to produce foo(123): 456 output and I don't think it can be integrated otherwise with Loguru.