improvements for the logging package

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    >> Changed now in CVS.  When 2.4.2 is released it should be there.

    Trent> Is this the same kind of thing as the (generally ill-regarded)
    Trent> change in Python 2.2.x (for some x != 0) that added:

No, I just backported the documentation bit that marked the keyword
parameter change to basicConfig() as happening in 2.4.  I didn't change any
code.

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