code: def set_verbosity(v):
    
    try:
      new_level = int(v)
    except ValueError:
      new_level = converter.ABSL_NAMES[v.upper()]
    FLAGS.verbosity = new_level
docs: Sets the logging verbosity.
  
    Causes all messages of level <= v to be logged,
    and all messages of level > v to be silently discarded.
  
    Args:
      v: int|str, the verbosity level as an integer or string. Legal string values
          are those that can be coerced to an integer as well as case-insensitive
          'debug', 'info', 'warning', 'error', and 'fatal'.