AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'DatagramHandler' (ubuntu-8.10, python 2.5.2)

[Chris Rebert]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Tzury Bar Yochay
<Afro.Systems at gmail.com> wrote:
> $ ~/devel/ice/snoip/freespeech$ python
> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct  5 2008, 19:24:49)
> [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import logging
>>>> logging.DatagramHandler
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'DatagramHandler'
>>>>
>
>
> That is odd since the documentation says there is DatagramHandler for
> module logging

>From http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html#logging.DatagramHandler :
"The DatagramHandler class, located in the logging.handlers module [...]"

>From http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html#logging-levels :
"The StreamHandler and FileHandler classes are defined in the core
logging package. The other handlers are defined in a sub- module,
logging.handlers."

There's your answer. I do agree though that the "class
logging.DatagramHandler" line in the docs is misleading to say the
least. Perhaps a docs bug should be filed...

Cheers,
Chris

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