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  r79279 | vinay.sajip | 2010-03-22 07:33:08 -0500 (Mon, 22 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded when logging occurs.
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  r79284 | vinay.sajip | 2010-03-22 08:02:28 -0500 (Mon, 22 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #8201: logging: Handle config errors when non-ASCII and Unicode logger names exist at the same time.
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  r79293 | vinay.sajip | 2010-03-22 10:29:01 -0500 (Mon, 22 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method to LoggerAdapter.
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  r79373 | vinay.sajip | 2010-03-24 09:31:21 -0500 (Wed, 24 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  logging: Added LOG_FTP for SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
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  r79376 | vinay.sajip | 2010-03-24 10:10:40 -0500 (Wed, 24 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  logging: Documentation tweak.
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  r79379 | vinay.sajip | 2010-03-24 12:36:35 -0500 (Wed, 24 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  logging: Updated SysLogHandler documentation.
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  r79876 | vinay.sajip | 2010-04-06 17:32:37 -0500 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #8327: logging: Clarification of propagation functionality in documentation.
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  r79888 | vinay.sajip | 2010-04-07 04:40:52 -0500 (Wed, 07 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #8331: logging: fixed some grammatical errors in documentation.
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diff --git a/Lib/logging/config.py b/Lib/logging/config.py
index beb51e5..f5971c2 100644
--- a/Lib/logging/config.py
+++ b/Lib/logging/config.py
@@ -98,6 +98,9 @@
 def _strip_spaces(alist):
     return map(lambda x: x.strip(), alist)
 
+def _encoded(s):
+    return s if isinstance(s, str) else s.encode('utf-8')
+
 def _create_formatters(cp):
     """Create and return formatters"""
     flist = cp.get("formatters", "keys")
@@ -208,7 +211,7 @@
     #avoid disabling child loggers of explicitly
     #named loggers. With a sorted list it is easier
     #to find the child loggers.
-    existing.sort()
+    existing.sort(key=_encoded)
     #We'll keep the list of existing loggers
     #which are children of named loggers here...
     child_loggers = []
@@ -579,7 +582,7 @@
                 #avoid disabling child loggers of explicitly
                 #named loggers. With a sorted list it is easier
                 #to find the child loggers.
-                existing.sort()
+                existing.sort(key=_encoded)
                 #We'll keep the list of existing loggers
                 #which are children of named loggers here...
                 child_loggers = []