Sets the logging verbosity.

  Causes all messages of level <= v to be logged,
  and all messages of level > v to be silently discarded.

  Args:
    v: int|str, the verbosity level as an integer or string. Legal string values
        are those that can be coerced to an integer as well as case-insensitive
        'debug', 'info', 'warning', 'error', and 'fatal'.

def set_verbosity(v):
  """Sets the logging verbosity.

  Causes all messages of level <= v to be logged,
  and all messages of level > v to be silently discarded.

  Args:
    v: int|str, the verbosity level as an integer or string. Legal string values
        are those that can be coerced to an integer as well as case-insensitive
        'debug', 'info', 'warning', 'error', and 'fatal'.
  """
  try:
    new_level = int(v)
  except ValueError:
    new_level = converter.ABSL_NAMES[v.upper()]
  FLAGS.verbosity = new_level