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 trades runtime speed for programmer convenience, and most of the time it’s a good tradeoff. One doesn’t typically need the raw speed of C for most workaday applications. And when you ...

The next section defines the file that will save our user input. A normal Python 3 statement to define ... in conjunction with the file.write function (which writes input to a file).