[issue32934] logging.handlers.BufferingHandler capacity is unclearly specified

Change by Vinay Sajip : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ P

[issue32934] logging.handlers.BufferingHandler capacity is unclearly specified

Vinay Sajip added the comment: New changeset 471d785dc759eb2e9c06f077f323cf136d32506b by Vinay Sajip (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.7': bpo-32934: Clarified meaning of 'capacity' for BufferingHandler and MemoryHandler. (GH-14498) (GH-14508) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/471d7

[issue32934] logging.handlers.BufferingHandler capacity is unclearly specified

Vinay Sajip added the comment: New changeset 3db5c5c7630af92336a8c0a269e05607cd68f9e7 by Vinay Sajip (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.8': bpo-32934: Clarified meaning of 'capacity' for BufferingHandler and MemoryHandler. (GH-14498) (GH-14507) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3db5c

[issue32934] logging.handlers.BufferingHandler capacity is unclearly specified

Vinay Sajip added the comment: New changeset 84de34e39eb9e49b2ae691c6f67df8d7da3561de by Vinay Sajip in branch 'master': bpo-32934: Clarified meaning of 'capacity' for BufferingHandler and MemoryHandler. (GH-14498) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/84de34e39eb9e49b2ae691c6f67df8d7da35

[issue32934] logging.handlers.BufferingHandler capacity is unclearly specified

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +14324 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/14508 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue32934] logging.handlers.BufferingHandler capacity is unclearly specified

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +14323 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/14507 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue32934] logging.handlers.BufferingHandler capacity is unclearly specified

Change by Vinay Sajip : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +14314 stage: needs patch -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/14498 ___ Python tracker _

[issue32934] logging.handlers.BufferingHandler capacity is unclearly specified

Enrico Zini added the comment: Thanks! Clarifying "number of records buffered" would perfectly solve the problem for me. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue32934] logging.handlers.BufferingHandler capacity is unclearly specified

Vinay Sajip added the comment: Python isn't a low-level language, and there isn't *in general* a particular intention "to give a bound to memory usage". When using "buffer" in a general sense, rather than a buffer object (which is more akin to a byte-array), it's usually understood to mean a

[issue32934] logging.handlers.BufferingHandler capacity is unclearly specified

Change by Karthikeyan Singaravelan : -- nosy: +vinay.sajip type: -> behavior versions: +Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 -Python 3.6 ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue32934] logging.handlers.BufferingHandler capacity is unclearly specified

New submission from Enrico Zini : BufferingHandler's documentatio says "Initializes the handler with a buffer of the specified capacity." but it does not specify what capacity means. One would assume the intention is to give a bound to memory usage, and that capacity is bytes. Looking at the