[issue13459] logger.propagate=True behavior clarification

[Mike Fogel]

New submission from Mike Fogel <mike at fogel.ca>:

Hi, there's been a fair amount of confusion over the interaction between logger.propagate and the ancestor logger's handlers and level.

http://bugs.python.org/issue7535
http://bugs.python.org/issue8327
http://bugs.python.org/issue9606

I think most this confusion could be avoided if the documentation for logger.propagate were expanded to explain clearly what happens when propagate evaluates to True - right now it just explains clearly what happens when it evaluates to False.

Attached is a documentation patch that does this.

Thanks for your consideration!

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
files: logger_propagate_doc.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 148164
nosy: docs at python, mfogel, vinay.sajip
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: logger.propagate=True behavior clarification
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23761/logger_propagate_doc.diff

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