Testing behavior of logging on py 2.6

Expect to kill this commit, want to run it on Travis though

salve/log/basic_setup.py

@@ -44,13 +44,11 @@ def setup_stderr(logger):
 
 
 def str_to_level(lvlstr):
-    mapping = {
-        'DEBUG': logging.DEBUG,
-        'INFO': logging.INFO,
-        'WARNING': logging.WARNING,
-        'ERROR': logging.ERROR
-    }
-    if lvlstr in mapping:
-        return mapping[lvlstr]
-    else:
+    try:
+        return dict(
+            (logging.getLevelName(l), l) for l in
+            [logging.DEBUG, logging.INFO, logging.WARNING, logging.ERROR,
+             logging.CRITICAL]
+            )[lvlstr.upper()]
+    except KeyError:
         raise ValueError('{0} is not a valid log level'.format(lvlstr))

salve/log/handler.py

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def gen_handler(filename=None, stream=None):
             # case where it's unspecified, omit it so that StreamHandler
             # defaults to sys.stderr
             else:
-                hdlr = logging.StreamHandler()
+                hdlr = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stderr)
         else:
             # StreamHandler uses stderr if stream is None
             hdlr = logging.StreamHandler(stream=stream)

tests/unit/action/backup_test.py

@@ -246,6 +246,10 @@ def dir_execute_no_source(self):
         for subact in act.actions:
             assert isinstance(subact, backup.FileBackupAction)
 
+
+        import logging
+        self.logger.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler(self.stderr))
+
         act(ConcreteFilesys())
 
         err = self.stderr.getvalue()