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| author | Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> | 2009-08-15 23:34:47 (GMT) |
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| committer | Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> | 2009-08-15 23:34:47 (GMT) |
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Refined section on logging to one file from multiple processes.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst index 5c8599a..53ba9a9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst @@ -1354,6 +1354,12 @@ existing processes to perform this function.) The following section documents this approach in more detail and includes a working socket receiver which can be used as a starting point for you to adapt in your own applications. +If you are using a recent version of Python which includes the +:mod:`multiprocessing` module, you can write your own handler which uses the +:class:`Lock` class from this module to serialize access to the file from +your processes. The existing :class:`FileHandler` and subclasses do not make +use of :mod:`multiprocessing` at present, though they may do so in the future. + .. _network-logging: Sending and receiving logging events across a network |