pithos/pithos — pull request #35 by obadz (2013-12-10 11:36:45+00:00)
Title: ameyp/pac-support called logging module which prevented the -v flag from

working properly and printing info-level error messages.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1943747/python-logging-before-you-run-logging-basicconfig
explains why that is and what to do to fix it.