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authorVinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>2011-11-23 08:54:22 (GMT)
committerVinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>2011-11-23 08:54:22 (GMT)
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Closes #13459: Clarified documentation on Logger.propagate. Thanks to Mike Fogel for the patch.
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@@ -57,9 +57,15 @@ instantiated directly, but always through the module-level function
.. attribute:: Logger.propagate
- If this evaluates to false, logging messages are not passed by this logger or by
- its child loggers to the handlers of higher level (ancestor) loggers. The
- constructor sets this attribute to 1.
+ If this evaluates to true, logging messages are passed by this logger and by
+ its child loggers to the handlers of higher level (ancestor) loggers.
+ Messages are passed directly to the ancestor loggers' handlers - neither the
+ level nor filters of the ancestor loggers in question are considered.
+
+ If this evaluates to false, logging messages are not passed to the handlers
+ of ancestor loggers.
+
+ The constructor sets this attribute to 1.
.. method:: Logger.setLevel(lvl)