Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com> added the comment: On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:48:28 -0700, Vinay Sajip <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> It should be understood that if a stream is passed to a StreamHandler, > the ownership of that stream is passed as well, so closing the handler > rather than the underlying stream is the right thing to do. ISTM this is > good practice in general and not exclusive to logging. However, sys.stdout|err can be assigned to some thing else (eg: py.test assigning it to an open file object) .. in which case it is legitimate to handle (close) such objects (handles) by who created it (py.test). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6333> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
