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@@ -953,13 +953,20 @@ applications where threads servicing clients need to respond as quickly as
possible, while any potentially slow operations (such as sending an email via
:class:`SMTPHandler`) are done on a separate thread.
-.. class:: QueueListener(queue, *handlers)
+.. class:: QueueListener(queue, *handlers, respect_handler_level=False)
Returns a new instance of the :class:`QueueListener` class. The instance is
initialized with the queue to send messages to and a list of handlers which
will handle entries placed on the queue. The queue can be any queue-
like object; it's passed as-is to the :meth:`dequeue` method, which needs
- to know how to get messages from it.
+ to know how to get messages from it. If ``respect_handler_level`` is ``True``,
+ a handler's level is respected (compared with the level for the message) when
+ deciding whether to pass messages to that handler; otherwise, the behaviour
+ is as in previous Python versions - to always pass each message to each
+ handler.
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.5
+ The ``respect_handler_levels`` argument was added.
.. method:: dequeue(block)