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@@ -1060,6 +1060,20 @@ possible, while any potentially slow operations (such as sending an email via
the record to a dict or JSON string, or send a modified copy
of the record while leaving the original intact.
+ .. note:: The base implementation formats the message with arguments, sets
+ the ``message`` and ``msg`` attributes to the formatted message and
+ sets the ``args`` and ``exc_text`` attributes to ``None`` to allow
+ pickling and to prevent further attempts at formatting. This means
+ that a handler on the :class:`QueueListener` side won't have the
+ information to do custom formatting, e.g. of exceptions. You may wish
+ to subclass ``QueueHandler`` and override this method to e.g. avoid
+ setting ``exc_text`` to ``None``. Note that the ``message`` / ``msg``
+ / ``args`` changes are related to ensuring the record is pickleable,
+ and you might or might not be able to avoid doing that depending on
+ whether your ``args`` are pickleable. (Note that you may have to
+ consider not only your own code but also code in any libraries that
+ you use.)
+
.. method:: enqueue(record)
Enqueues the record on the queue using ``put_nowait()``; you may