Determining if root logger is set to DEBUG level in Python?

Question

If I set the logging module to DEBUG with a command line parameter like this:

if (opt["log"] == "debug"):
  logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

How can I later tell if the logger was set to DEBUG? I'm writing a decorator that will time a function if True flag is passed to it, and if no flag is given, it defaults to printing timing information when the root logger is set to DEBUG.

Answer 1

http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html#logging.Logger.getEffectiveLevel

Answer 2

logging.getLogger().getEffectiveLevel()

logging.getLogger() without arguments gets the root level logger.

http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html#logging.Logger.getEffectiveLevel