From 74ab3440bad1b97e39fb5adf992e555ba26001d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 08:49:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Closes #13661: Check added for type of logger name.

---
 Lib/logging/__init__.py  | 2 ++
 Lib/test/test_logging.py | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/logging/__init__.py b/Lib/logging/__init__.py
index f6af6057e6c..a0c4cb7233c 100644
--- a/Lib/logging/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/logging/__init__.py
@@ -1007,6 +1007,8 @@ class Manager(object):
         placeholder to now point to the logger.
         """
         rv = None
+        if not isinstance(name, basestring):
+            raise ValueError('A logger name must be string or Unicode')
         if isinstance(name, unicode):
             name = name.encode('utf-8')
         _acquireLock()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_logging.py b/Lib/test/test_logging.py
index 0760a6a07b2..b2d0a2bda62 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_logging.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_logging.py
@@ -272,6 +272,8 @@ class BuiltinLevelsTest(BaseTest):
             ('INF.BADPARENT', 'INFO', '4'),
         ])
 
+    def test_invalid_name(self):
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, logging.getLogger, any)
 
 class BasicFilterTest(BaseTest):