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authorAndre Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>2019-03-26 02:42:26 -0300
committerVinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>2019-03-26 05:42:26 +0000
commit3e700e4ca3922337a24dc150238a6da724cfe873 (patch)
tree4a709e6d0ad355784119fb9213ad4dc3e271b406
parent577277f669a6d5c626c142358a940a10d32813ff (diff)
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Document that logging registers shutdown as an atexit handler (GH-12378)
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@@ -1215,6 +1215,10 @@ functions.
closing all handlers. This should be called at application exit and no
further use of the logging system should be made after this call.
+ When the logging module is imported, it registers this function as an exit
+ handler (see :mod:`atexit`), so normally there's no need to do that
+ manually.
+
.. function:: setLoggerClass(klass)