When you use the command “input,” Python will prompt the user with the text in the brackets, and then wait for the response. That string will then be referred to as UserName.

For example, a user may enter a text string in all capital letters and you need to normalize the data by translating it to lower case. You can translate user input to lowercase using Python's ...

Which means I need to suppress the logger from actually printing until the user has a chance to make a decision. But there doesn't seem to be something like a logging.pause () method.

Python has a way to convert one type of data to another. For example, turning a number into a string to print it, or converting user input (which is always a string) into an integer for calculations.