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-rw-r--r--Lib/packaging/tests/support.py5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/packaging/tests/support.py b/Lib/packaging/tests/support.py
index ae65a1db3b..501f1260a3 100644
--- a/Lib/packaging/tests/support.py
+++ b/Lib/packaging/tests/support.py
@@ -65,7 +65,10 @@ class LoggingCatcher:
configured to record all messages logged to the 'packaging' logger.
Use get_logs to retrieve messages and self.loghandler.flush to discard
- them.
+ them. get_logs automatically flushes the logs; if you test code that
+ generates logging messages but don't use get_logs, you have to flush
+ manually before doing other checks on logging message, otherwise you
+ will get irrelevant results. See example in test_command_check.
"""
def setUp(self):