logging module: removing handlers

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Michele Simionato wrote:

> On Nov 21, 10:23 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> 
>> I can only guess - but I'd say if you can do
>>
>> foo.removeHandler(h)
>>
>> you can do
>>
>> foo.removeHandler(h)
>> h.close()
>>
>> easily. But not
>>
>> foo.removeHandler(h) # implicit closing
>> bar.addHandler(h)
>>
>> It does kind of make sense if you decouple the life-cycles IMHO.
>>
>> Diez
> 
> But what is the use case for removing an handler without closing it?

Having thought more about this, it _has_ to be that way - think of one
handler attached to several loggers. Removing AND closing it from one would
render it useless for others. You can't want that to happen.

Diez