Imported Module Adding Unwanted Logging. How Can It Be Suppressed?

I'm seeing extra logging messages after I've imported a module I need to use. I'm trying to work out the correct way to stop this happening. The following code shows the issue best

Solution 1:

This is a bug in the flickrapi library you are using. It is calling logging.basicConfig() in it's __init__.py which is the wrong thing to do for a library since it adds a StreamHandler defaulting to stderr to the root logger.

You should probably open a bug report with the author. There is a HOWTO in the python logging docs on how libraries should configure logging.

To work around this issue until the bug is fixed you should be able to do the following:

# at the top of your module before doing anything elseimport flickrapi
import logging
try:
    logging.root.handlers.pop()
except IndexError:
    # once the bug is fixed in the library the handlers list will be empty - so we need to catch this errorpass