Add some additional functionality to the script. Inclduing logging and arparse

utils.py

import logging
import colorlog


def create_log_file(log_file_name):
	with open(log_file_name, 'w') as o: pass


def setup_logger(log_fmt="%(log_color)s%(asctime)s:%(levelname)s:%(message)s", log_file_name=".output.log", level='DEBUG'):
	
	# a new log file is created each time.
	# no space issues are caused.
	create_log_file(log_file_name)
	
	formatter = colorlog.ColoredFormatter(
		log_fmt,
		datefmt='%DT%H:%M:%SZ'
	)

	logger = logging.getLogger()

	handler2 = logging.FileHandler(log_file_name)
	handler = logging.StreamHandler()
	handler.setFormatter(formatter)
	logger.addHandler(handler)
	logger.addHandler(handler2)
	logger.setLevel(level)

	return logger