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diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst b/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst index df5bfef..592d7e5 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst @@ -992,9 +992,11 @@ possible, while any potentially slow operations (such as sending an email via .. class:: QueueHandler(queue) Returns a new instance of the :class:`QueueHandler` class. The instance is - initialized with the queue to send messages to. The queue can be any - queue-like object; it's used as-is by the :meth:`enqueue` method, which needs - to know how to send messages to it. + initialized with the queue to send messages to. The *queue* can be any + queue-like object; it's used as-is by the :meth:`enqueue` method, which + needs to know how to send messages to it. The queue is not *required* to + have the task tracking API, which means that you can use + :class:`~queue.SimpleQueue` instances for *queue*. .. method:: emit(record) @@ -1050,11 +1052,14 @@ possible, while any potentially slow operations (such as sending an email via 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. 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. + to know how to get messages from it. The queue is not *required* to have the + task tracking API (though it's used if available), which means that you can + use :class:`~queue.SimpleQueue` instances for *queue*. + + 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. |