docs: def log(self, format_str, *format_args, **log_options):
          """
          wrapper around the module's logger
  
          format_str -- string -- the message to log
          *format_args -- list -- if format_str is a string containing {}, then format_str.format(*format_args) is ran
          **log_options -- 
              level -- something like logging.DEBUG
          """
          if isinstance(format_str, Exception):
              logger.exception(format_str, *format_args)
          else:
              log_level = log_options.get('level', logging.DEBUG)
              if logger.isEnabledFor(log_level):
                  if format_args:
                      logger.log(log_level, format_str.format(*format_args))
                  else:
                      logger.log(log_level, format_str)