Logging Primer misrepresents the StreamHandler

[c4m3lo]

The ​Django Logging Primer says that logging.StreamHandler outputs to stdout. This is at odds with the ​Python documentation for the class, which says that it goes to sys.stderr.

[Adrien Lemaire]

Effectively, the doc says:

Returns a new instance of the StreamHandler class. If stream is specified, the instance will use it for
logging output; otherwise, sys.stderr will be used.

But django always specifies a stream to handler, thus logging.StreamHandler outputs to stdout.
You can have a look at django.utils.dictconfig.py DictConfigurator.configure_handler() , from line 491 to 501.

[Claude Paroz]

Replying to Fandekasp:

But django always specifies a stream to handler, thus logging.StreamHandler outputs to stdout.
You can have a look at django.utils.dictconfig.py DictConfigurator.configure_handler() , from line 491 to 501.

Sorry, but that is not true. By default, no kwargs are provided to the handler class constructor, so the default is stderr. The docs have to be fixed.

[Claude Paroz]

In [17741]:

Fixed #17900 -- StreamHandler output defaults to stderr. Thanks c4m3lo for the report.

[Adrien Lemaire]

ah sorry for my mistake

[Claude Paroz]

In [17742]:

[1.3.X] Fixed #17900 -- StreamHandler output defaults to stderr. Thanks c4m3lo for the report.

Backport of r17741 from trunk.