No, please don't call "logging.whatever" as needed. That uses the root logger, and that removes the consumer's ability to tune different loggers. logger = log

No, please don't call "logging.whatever" as needed. That uses the root logger, and that removes the consumer's ability to tune different loggers. logger = logging.getLogger("libname.foo") logger.<whatever> is much more useful and polite. Using the top-level logger is like putting this in your library: __builtins__.__dict__.update(globals()) Bad form.