Disable verbose logging by default and add xcall.enable_verbose_logging() command

Author: robwalton

README.md

@@ -74,6 +74,13 @@ or just:
 >>> ulysses_client('get-version')
 ```
 
+## Logging
+As logger output just goes directly to the terminal, it is disabled by default. To enable more verbose logging use:
+```python
+>>> import xcall
+>>> xcall.enable_verbose_logging()
+```
+
 ## On thread/process safety
 Call to this module are __probably__ not thread/process safe. An attempt is made
 to ensure that `xcall` is not already running, but there is 20-30ms window in which

xcall.py

@@ -37,9 +37,12 @@
 
 
 logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s:%(message)s',
-                    level=logging.DEBUG)
+                    level=logging.WARNING)
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+def enable_verbose_logging():
+    logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+
 
 class XCallbackError(Exception):
     """Exception representing an x-error callback from xcall.
@@ -149,7 +152,7 @@ def _xcall(self, url, activate_app):
         if activate_app:
             args += ['-activateApp', 'YES']
 
-        logger.debug('XCALL_PATH: "%s"' % XCALL_PATH)
+        logger.info('Making bash call: "%s"' % ' '.join(args))
 
 
         p = subprocess.Popen(