> I don't get all the details of what's all that stuff for, but from the
> error and traceback, I think you forgot to create the filter_test
> instance. That is, change lgr.addFilter(filter_test) to
> lgr.addFilter(filter_test())

do'h . for some reason, I thought addFilter took a class instead of an instance. but on testing, I'm still missing something and getting the same error