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-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# encoding: utf-8
-#
-# This file is a part of the CaosDB Project.
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2018 Research Group Biomedical Physics,
-# Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen
-# Copyright (C) 2019 Henrik tom Wörden
-#
-# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
-# License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
-# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-"""
-Verbosity levels are: quiet, info, verbose, debug
-"""
-QUIET = 0
-INFO = 1
-VERBOSE = 2
-DEBUG = 3