I setup and use rotatingHandler this way:
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#create logger
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
#create rotate handler
rotatefh = logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler(filename=logfile, maxBytes=20000000, backupCount=100)
rotatefh.setLevel(logging.INFO)
#create formatter
formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s %(levelname)s: %(message)s')
rotatefh.setFormatter(formatter)
logger.addHandler(rotatefh)
...
	logger.info("%s, create time: %s" % (pdb, time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", time.localtime(create_time))))
	logger.info("copying '%s' to '%s' ..." % (src, dst))
	copy_cmd = 'xcopy /I /E /Y "%s" "%s"' % (src, dst)
	process = subprocess.Popen(copy_cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
	for msg in process.stdout:
		logger.info(msg.strip())
	process.wait()
	error_msg = process.stderr.read()
	if error_msg:
		logger.error(error_msg.strip())
	else:
		if build_num in release_version:
			logger.info("leave release version '%s' un touched" % pdb)
			continue
		else:
			logger.info("deleting '%s'" % src)
			subprocess.call('rd /s /q "%s"' % src, shell=True)
	logger.info("=" * 80)
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All other part has nothing to do with log file.
when it comes to rotate, I always get this error:


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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\logging\handlers.py", line 78, in emit
    self.doRollover()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\logging\handlers.py", line 141, in doRollover
    os.rename(self.baseFilename, dfn)
WindowsError: [Error 32]
Logged from file backup_pdb.py, line 76
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\logging\handlers.py", line 78, in emit
    self.doRollover()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\logging\handlers.py", line 141, in doRollover
    os.rename(self.baseFilename, dfn)
WindowsError: [Error 32]
Logged from file backup_pdb.py, line 76
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\logging\handlers.py", line 78, in emit
    self.doRollover()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\logging\handlers.py", line 141, in doRollover
    os.rename(self.baseFilename, dfn)
WindowsError: [Error 32]
Logged from file backup_pdb.py, line 76
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I don't have any anti-virus software on this machine,  the error is somewhat like http://bugs.python.org/issue14450 . However, I have only one handler referring to the log file, but still get the error.

It could be a number of things which are keeping the file open, e.g.

* Windows indexing the volume for search
* Child process keeping files open (e.g. while copying log files - I can't tell what you're actually copying)

You may need to use a tool like FileMon or PSMon to see what's happening, but I don't see any evidence that it's a logging bug.

Is there a specific logging statement which is being called which leads to the error? There are several in your snippet.

Closed for lack of evidence, please re-open when and if more information is available.