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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:

def initLogger():
    '''
    This code taken from Matt's Suspenders for initializing a logger
    '''
    global logger
    logger = logging.getLogger('root')
    logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
    ch = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
    ch.setLevel(logging.INFO)
    formatter = logging.Formatter("[%(asctime)s] %(levelname)s: %(message)s", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
    ch.setFormatter(formatter)
    logger.addHandler(ch)