no output in vs code using python logging module

Question

I'm on Windows 10 using VS Code 1.73.1 and am retrofitting my program with the Python logging module. My program is generally functioning. The main thing I did is change all the print statements to logger.debug and I know the variable formatting needs to be changed from {} to %s . I also added the encoding flag to my file handler.

A couple more things:

1. When I run it from the VS Code command line, it does create a file with debug statements but does not display any output to the Terminal, Debug Console or Output windows.
2. When I use the F5 function to run it, it does NOT create a file or display any console output anywhere.

print('something') works and displays in either the Terminal or Debug Console depending on the launch.json setting, but logger.debug('something') does not display in either console.

My request/question: Using logger.debug , why is nothing printing to console, and no file is even created?

I also tried running the code below in its own separate .py file with the same problem:
print displays to the Debug Console, but logger.debug does not.

Logging code block:

import logging

# Create a custom logger
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
# Streaming Handler
c_handler = logging.StreamHandler()
c_handler.setLevel(logging.INFO)
c_format = logging.Formatter('%(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
c_handler.setFormatter(c_format)
logger.addHandler(c_handler)
# File Handler
f_handler = logging.FileHandler('download_shelf.log', encoding='utf-8')
f_handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
f_format = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
f_handler.setFormatter(f_format)
logger.addHandler(f_handler)

logger.debug(f"Log messages:") ### `print` statement displays in either the Terminal 
                               ### or Debug Console depending on `launch.json` setting

I made sure my launch.json file was set up in the local .vscode folder (see bottom code section). However, I did have to manually create this file, then restarted VS Code. Information I found said there was a link in the Debug panel, which I know I've seen before. It wasn't there for this file.

My directory structure:

toplevel/
    .vscode/
        launch.json
    src/
        subdirectory/
           myfile.py

My launch.json file contains "console": "internalConsole"

{
    "configurations": [
        {"name":"Python: Current File",
        "type":"python",
        "request":"launch",
        "program":"${file}",
        // "console":"integratedTerminal",
        "console": "internalConsole",
        "justMyCode":true
        },
    ]
}

Answer 1

After using a different logger example, I realized the problem was the Level setting in the first example I used had "INFO" and not "DEBUG" so nothing was showing up. Oops...

import logging

logger = logging.getLogger('simple_example')
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
console = logging.StreamHandler()
console.setLevel(level=logging.DEBUG)
formatter =  logging.Formatter('%(levelname)s : %(message)s')
console.setFormatter(formatter)
logger.addHandler(console)

logger.debug('simple message')