Now you can use logger.info('text') format to log something. I think this is best practice. This logger will format output for nice reading.

cool Django logger settings

LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'formatters': {
        'verbose': {
            'format': '%(levelname)s %(asctime)s %(name)s %(funcName)s %(lineno)s: %(message)s'
        },
    },
    'handlers': {
        'console': {
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
            'formatter': 'verbose'
        },
        'null': {
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'class': 'django.utils.log.NullHandler',
        },
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django': {
            'handlers': ['null'],
            'propagate': False,
            'level': 'DEBUG',
        },
        'south': {
            'handlers': ['console'],
            'level': 'INFO',
            'propagate': False,
        },
        #'mutual_help.views': {              #uncomment block to enable log in only one application     
        #    'handlers': ['console'],
        #    'level': 'DEBUG',
        #    'propagate': False,
        #},
        '': {
            'handlers': ['console'],
            'level': 'WARNING',              #or set level DEBUG to enable debug messages from all applications
            'propagate': False,
        },
    }
}