diff -r 76435de68379 Lib/logging/config.py
--- a/Lib/logging/config.py	Tue Oct 02 10:19:48 2012 -0400
+++ b/Lib/logging/config.py	Tue Oct 02 17:25:08 2012 +0200
@@ -67,6 +67,13 @@
     else:
         cp.read(fname)
 
+    configParserConfig(cp, disable_existing_loggers=disable_existing_loggers):
+
+def configParserConfig(cparser, disable_existing_loggers=True):
+    """
+    Configure logging as provided in a configparser.ConfigParser instance.
+    """
+
     formatters = _create_formatters(cp)
 
     # critical section