Notice that in this example, we use functions directly on the ``logging``

module, like ``logging.debug``, rather than creating a logger and calling

functions on it. These functionsoperation on the root logger, but can be useful

functions on it. These functionsoperate on the root logger, but can be useful

as they will call:func:`~logging.basicConfig` for you if it has not been called yet, like in

this example. In larger programs you'll usually want to control the logging

configuration explicitly however - so for that reason as well as others, it's