Commit e6b64b75 authored by Vinay Sajip's avatar Vinay Sajip Committed by GitHub

bpo-37469: Document usability of SimpleQueue with QueueHandler and QueueListener. (GH-14521)

parent 36242fd8
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.. class:: QueueHandler(queue)
Returns a new instance of the :class:`QueueHandler` class. The instance is
initialized with the queue to send messages to. The queue can be any
queue-like object; it's used as-is by the :meth:`enqueue` method, which needs
to know how to send messages to it.
initialized with the queue to send messages to. The *queue* can be any
queue-like object; it's used as-is by the :meth:`enqueue` method, which
needs to know how to send messages to it. The queue is not *required* to
have the task tracking API, which means that you can use
:class:`~queue.SimpleQueue` instances for *queue*.
.. method:: emit(record)
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initialized with the queue to send messages to and a list of handlers which
will handle entries placed on the queue. The queue can be any queue-like
object; it's passed as-is to the :meth:`dequeue` method, which needs
to know how to get messages from it. If ``respect_handler_level`` is ``True``,
a handler's level is respected (compared with the level for the message) when
deciding whether to pass messages to that handler; otherwise, the behaviour
is as in previous Python versions - to always pass each message to each
handler.
to know how to get messages from it. The queue is not *required* to have the
task tracking API (though it's used if available), which means that you can
use :class:`~queue.SimpleQueue` instances for *queue*.
If ``respect_handler_level`` is ``True``, a handler's level is respected
(compared with the level for the message) when deciding whether to pass
messages to that handler; otherwise, the behaviour is as in previous Python
versions - to always pass each message to each handler.
.. versionchanged:: 3.5
The ``respect_handler_levels`` argument was added.
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