This would be the equivalent to having a EmailLogger that supports XMPP and IMAP, but not SMTP. I don't see how you can argue it as not being a bug.

I have a patch that works, yes, but to make use of it, I need to patch Python every time I upgrade, as would all my users. Seeing as we are all users of the Python language, not developers of it, manual patching should *not* be necessary. The SyslogLogger could easily contain a documented note that syscall support may not be thread-safe. Note that in practice, I haven't had any problems-- the application I am writing is highly threaded.