diff --git a/convert-persimmon-to-gguf.py b/convert-persimmon-to-gguf.py
index 7ab27ffb2..8fc91a7e5 100755
--- a/convert-persimmon-to-gguf.py
+++ b/convert-persimmon-to-gguf.py
@@ -73,10 +73,7 @@ def main():
     parser.add_argument("--adept-inference-dir", type=str,  help="path to adept-inference code directory")
     parser.add_argument("--verbose",  action="store_true",  help="increase output verbosity")
     args = parser.parse_args()
-    if args.verbose:
-        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
-    else:
-        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG if args.verbose else logging.INFO)
     sys.path.append(str(args.adept_inference_dir))
     persimmon_model = torch.load(args.ckpt_path)
     hparams = persimmon_model['args']
diff --git a/ggml_vk_generate_shaders.py b/ggml_vk_generate_shaders.py
index cd9b8dd96..1d9a0cc82 100644
--- a/ggml_vk_generate_shaders.py
+++ b/ggml_vk_generate_shaders.py
@@ -2775,10 +2775,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
 
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
-    if args.verbose:
-        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
-    else:
-        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG if args.verbose else logging.INFO)
 
     if args.glslc:
         GLSLC = args.glslc
diff --git a/gguf-py/scripts/gguf-convert-endian.py b/gguf-py/scripts/gguf-convert-endian.py
index dc2b9dfbd..fdab4e72e 100755
--- a/gguf-py/scripts/gguf-convert-endian.py
+++ b/gguf-py/scripts/gguf-convert-endian.py
@@ -110,10 +110,7 @@ def main() -> None:
 
     args = parser.parse_args(None if len(sys.argv) > 1 else ["--help"])
 
-    if args.verbose:
-        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
-    else:
-        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG if args.verbose else logging.INFO)
 
     logger.info(f'* Loading: {args.model}')
     reader = gguf.GGUFReader(args.model, 'r' if args.dry_run else 'r+')
diff --git a/gguf-py/scripts/gguf-dump.py b/gguf-py/scripts/gguf-dump.py
index f813a982c..7b0ef82c1 100755
--- a/gguf-py/scripts/gguf-dump.py
+++ b/gguf-py/scripts/gguf-dump.py
@@ -111,10 +111,7 @@ def main() -> None:
 
     args = parser.parse_args(None if len(sys.argv) > 1 else ["--help"])
 
-    if args.verbose:
-        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
-    else:
-        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG if args.verbose else logging.INFO)
 
     if not args.json:
         logger.info(f'* Loading: {args.model}')
diff --git a/gguf-py/scripts/gguf-set-metadata.py b/gguf-py/scripts/gguf-set-metadata.py
index ed24dd75f..e35b651b8 100755
--- a/gguf-py/scripts/gguf-set-metadata.py
+++ b/gguf-py/scripts/gguf-set-metadata.py
@@ -84,10 +84,7 @@ def main() -> None:
 
     args = parser.parse_args(None if len(sys.argv) > 1 else ["--help"])
 
-    if args.verbose:
-        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
-    else:
-        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG if args.verbose else logging.INFO)
 
     logger.info(f'* Loading: {args.model}')
     reader = GGUFReader(args.model, 'r' if args.dry_run else 'r+')
diff --git a/tests/test-tokenizer-0-bpe.py b/tests/test-tokenizer-0-bpe.py
index 731ae5e77..381332815 100644
--- a/tests/test-tokenizer-0-bpe.py
+++ b/tests/test-tokenizer-0-bpe.py
@@ -20,11 +20,7 @@ parser.add_argument("--fname-tok",   help="path to a text file to tokenize")
 parser.add_argument("--verbose", action="store_true", help="increase output verbosity")
 
 args = parser.parse_args()
-if args.verbose:
-    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
-else:
-    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
-
+logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG if args.verbose else logging.INFO)
 dir_tokenizer = args.dir_tokenizer
 
 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(dir_tokenizer)
diff --git a/tests/test-tokenizer-0-spm.py b/tests/test-tokenizer-0-spm.py
index 648b60908..223ab1bb6 100644
--- a/tests/test-tokenizer-0-spm.py
+++ b/tests/test-tokenizer-0-spm.py
@@ -21,10 +21,7 @@ parser.add_argument("--verbose", action="store_true", help="increase output verb
 
 args = parser.parse_args()
 
-if args.verbose:
-    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
-else:
-    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG if args.verbose else logging.INFO)
 
 dir_tokenizer = args.dir_tokenizer