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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2019-07-01 19:53:39 (GMT)
committerVinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>2019-07-01 19:53:39 (GMT)
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bpo-37470: Document more clearly the error handling for QueueHandler.emit(). (GH-14532) (GH-14533)
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@@ -980,7 +980,12 @@ possible, while any potentially slow operations (such as sending an email via
.. method:: emit(record)
- Enqueues the result of preparing the LogRecord.
+ Enqueues the result of preparing the LogRecord. Should an exception
+ occur (e.g. because a bounded queue has filled up), the
+ :meth:`~logging.Handler.handleError` method is called to handle the
+ error. This can result in the record silently being dropped (if
+ :attr:`logging.raiseExceptions` is ``False``) or a message printed to
+ ``sys.stderr`` (if :attr:`logging.raiseExceptions` is ``True``).
.. method:: prepare(record)