Issue #6314: logging.basicConfig() performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
diff --git a/Lib/logging/__init__.py b/Lib/logging/__init__.py
index 456dec9..23f7930 100644
--- a/Lib/logging/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/logging/__init__.py
@@ -1397,6 +1397,10 @@
root.addHandler(hdlr)
level = kwargs.get("level")
if level is not None:
+ if str(level) == level: # If a string was passed, do more checks
+ if level not in _levelNames:
+ raise ValueError("Unknown level: %r" % level)
+ level = _levelNames[level]
root.setLevel(level)
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 86666ff..2985c3a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -327,7 +327,10 @@
Library
-------
-- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
+- Issue #6314: logging.basicConfig() performs extra checks on the "level"
+ argument.
+
+- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py