Example of using Django's built in verbosity argument to set log level in a management command

django-command-verbosity.py

import logging

from django.core.management import BaseCommand

log = logging.getLogger(__name__)


class Command(BaseCommand):

    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG if int(options['verbosity']) > 1 else logging.INFO)
        log.info('Normal output')
        log.debug('Verbose output')