New submission from Bob Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The documentation for the sys module says: "stdout and stderr needn't be built-in file objects: any object is acceptable as long as it has a write() method that takes a string argument."
However, the logging module calls flush() and close() on StreamHandler.stream (and stream may be stdout), yet stdout does not apparently need to have these methods - this caused breakage for a program of mine that redirects stdout and can import arbitrary modules (it's an interactive interpreter). The attached patch checks that these two methods exist (using hastattr) before calling them. ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: __init__.py.patch keywords: patch messages: 68296 nosy: bobf severity: normal status: open title: Lib/logging/__init__.py assumes its stream has flush and close methods type: behavior versions: Python 2.5 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10640/__init__.py.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3126> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
