Fix verbose behavior in Rails within Python script (GH-178)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
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+## [Unreleased]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fixed logging issue where `verbose=true` flag did not trigger expected log output.
 
 ## [0.6.1] - 2023-12-20
 

nemoguardrails/rails/llm/llmrails.py

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 from nemoguardrails.llm.providers import get_llm_provider, get_llm_provider_names
 from nemoguardrails.logging.explain import ExplainInfo
 from nemoguardrails.logging.stats import llm_stats
+from nemoguardrails.logging.verbose import set_verbose
 from nemoguardrails.patch_asyncio import check_sync_call_from_async_loop
 from nemoguardrails.rails.llm.config import EmbeddingSearchProvider, RailsConfig
 from nemoguardrails.rails.llm.utils import get_history_cache_key
@@ -59,6 +60,9 @@ def __init__(
         self.llm = llm
         self.verbose = verbose
 
+        if self.verbose:
+            set_verbose(True)
+
         # We allow the user to register additional embedding search providers, so we keep
         # an index of them.
         self.embedding_search_providers = {}