Sample Logger - return a pretty straight forward and configured logger

logger.py

import logging
import logging.handlers 

def get_logger(name, logfile=""):
    """
    Get a logger with a given name.
    
    The logger will be configured to match other loggers.
    
    Keyword arguments:
    name -- name of the logger
    logfile -- path of the logfile or "" if only stdout
    """
	
    l = logging.getLogger(name)

    l.setLevel(logging.INFO)

    ch = logging.StreamHandler()
    ch.setLevel(logging.INFO)
    formatter = logging.Formatter("[%(asctime)s] [%(levelname)s] %(name)s: %(message)s")
    ch.setFormatter(formatter)
    l.addHandler(ch)
    
    if logfile != "":
        handler = logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler(logfile, maxBytes=10 * 1024 * 1024, backupCount=5)
        l.addHandler(handler)

    return l