``locale.getpreferredencoding(False)`` but ignores the

:ref:`Python UTF-8 Mode<utf8-mode>`.

.. _whatsnew311-logging:

logging

* Added:func:`~logging.getLevelNamesMapping`

to return a mapping from logging level names (e.g. ``'CRITICAL'``)

to the values of their corresponding:ref:`levels` (e.g. ``50``, by default).

(Contributed by Andrei Kulakovin in:gh:`88024`.)

* Added a:meth:`~logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.createSocket` method

to:class:`~logging.handlers.SysLogHandler`, to match

:meth:`SocketHandler.createSocket()

<logging.handlers.SocketHandler.createSocket>`.

It is called automatically during handler initialization

and when emitting an event, if there is no active socket.

(Contributed by Kirill Pinchuk in:gh:`88457`.)

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