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| author | Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> | 2019-08-02 15:53:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-08-02 15:53:00 (GMT) |
| commit | cb65b3a4f484ce71dcb76a918af98c7015513025 (patch) | |
| tree | 7f4e08a9ed98315e4fe5d0651f9344271db928a2 /Misc | |
| parent | 854d0a4b98b13629252e21edaf2b785b429e5135 (diff) | |
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bpo-37742: Return the root logger when logging.getLogger('root') is c… (#15077)
* bpo-37742: Return the root logger when logging.getLogger('root') is called.
* Added type check guard on logger name in logging.getLogger() and refined a test.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-02-14-01-25.bpo-37742.f4Xn9S.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-02-14-01-25.bpo-37742.f4Xn9S.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..300ced3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-02-14-01-25.bpo-37742.f4Xn9S.rst @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The logging.getLogger() API now returns the root logger when passed the name +'root', whereas previously it returned a non-root logger named 'root'. This +could affect cases where user code explicitly wants a non-root logger named +'root', or instantiates a logger using logging.getLogger(__name__) in some +top-level module called 'root.py'. |