Easy way to temporarily kill logging in Python
Ever want to just turn off that logger for a while in Python? Maybe while running tests or debugging? Even the CRITICAL messages?
Notice that the logging level contants (logging.DEBUG etc) actually represent numeric values:
Level Numeric value
CRITICAL 50
ERROR 40
WARNING 30
INFO 20
DEBUG 10
NOTSET 0
On a whim I tried:
logging.getLogger('logger_to_turn_off').setLevel(100)
And bam, no logging, even the CRITICAL messages. Yes, most of you python nerds knew this, but I didn’t, so I learned something at least!