Make filename, stream, and handlers parameters of logging.basicConfig mutually-exclusive#15435
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cc @hamdanal since you looked at this function recently |
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According to mypy_primer, this change has no effect on the checked open source code. 🤖🎉 |
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| logging.basicConfig(stream=None) | ||
| logging.basicConfig(stream=None, handlers=None) | ||
| # 'filemode' is inert when 'filename' is not passed, but is accepted if 'handlers=None'. | ||
| logging.basicConfig(filemode="w", stream=None) |
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This sounds like a case where we could forbid filemode to prevent an error where users pass it, expecting to do something when it doesn't. But I don't have strong feelings either way.
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LGTM, with one potential comment.
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Source: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.14/Lib/logging/__init__.py#L2005
Docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html#logging.basicConfig