[issue34350] Non obvious logging handler behaviour

Vinay Sajip added the comment: The logging module-level convenience functions are specifically there for the use of casual, short scripts where users don't want to be concerned with the details of loggers and handlers. Even if you accidentally configure logging in library code because you ty

[issue34350] Non obvious logging handler behaviour

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[issue34350] Non obvious logging handler behaviour

Mark Dickinson added the comment: The behaviour is long-standing and documented, in the note just under this entry: https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html?highlight=logging#logging.log But I do agree that it's surprising and (at least for me) undesirable behaviour, in that it makes

[issue34350] Non obvious logging handler behaviour

New submission from Sebastian : In Python 3.6.3 I can do: import logging logger = logging.getLogger() logger.setLevel(logging.INFO) logger.info("this does not work") logging.info("PARTY") logger.info("this works") And it outputs: INFO:root:PARTY INFO:root:this works The line logging.info("