Change to LogRecord.__init__() to fix #1206. Note that archaic use of type(x) == types.DictType is because of keeping 1.5.2 compatibility. While this is much less relevant these days, there probably needs to be a separate commit for removing all archaic constructs at the same time.
diff --git a/Lib/logging/__init__.py b/Lib/logging/__init__.py
index 9299b8f..db41cb3 100644
--- a/Lib/logging/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/logging/__init__.py
@@ -234,7 +234,9 @@
         # 'Value is %d' instead of 'Value is 0'.
         # For the use case of passing a dictionary, this should not be a
         # problem.
-        if args and (len(args) == 1) and args[0] and (type(args[0]) == types.DictType):
+        if args and len(args) == 1 and (
+                                        type(args[0]) == types.DictType
+                                       ) and args[0]:
             args = args[0]
         self.args = args
         self.levelname = getLevelName(level)