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!

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logger.debuuuuughh('what the hell #python #debuglogging

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