The documentation doesn't indicate that the Logger.exception method can accept kwargs like the other logging methods (Logger.debug, Logger.info, etc...) such as exc_info, stack_info, and extra.

https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/logging.html#logging.Logger.exception

The method signature is documented as: 

Logger.exception(msg, *args)

It should be:

Logger.exception(msg, *args, **kwargs)

It appears that this functionality was added in between Python 2.7.3 and 2.7.4 (http://bugs.python.org/issue15541) but that the documentation was never changed for the newer versions.

Removed Python versions which are not receiving changes.

New changeset dcb5ca1f1b44 by Vinay Sajip in branch '2.7':
Issue #21245: updated documentation on exception() method and function.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/dcb5ca1f1b44

New changeset eee4fd2012ae by Vinay Sajip in branch '3.4':
Issue #21245: updated documentation on exception() method and function.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/eee4fd2012ae

New changeset a0ec713964b1 by Vinay Sajip in branch 'default':
Closes #21245: merged update from 3.4.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a0ec713964b1

Are you sure that Python 3.2 and Python 3.3 don't need updated documentation? I don't know for sure if these two version have the code change or not but the http://bugs.python.org/issue15541 seems to indicate that 3.2 at least does.

Thanks for the amazing response!

> Are you sure that Python 3.2 and Python 3.3 don't need updated documentation?

As I understand it, the policy is not to do documentation updates for Python versions that will never see new releases. If a 3.x release manager says otherwise, I can revisit it - obviously the changes are easy to make :-)