Consider the following code:

import logging
import logging.handlers

if __name__ == "__main__":
    fh = logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler("log.txt")
    mh = logging.handlers.MemoryHandler(1024, 
logging.ERROR, fh)
    logging.getLogger().addHandler(mh)
    logging.getLogger().warning("next statement crashes")
    logging.shutdown()

which results in a crash due to operating on a closed 
file. The reason is that the shutdown flushes and closes 
all handlers in undefined order. In above case, first 
the 'fh' handlers is flushes and closed then the 'mh' 
handler.

The solution is to first flush all handlers times the 
number of handlers before closing them. Thus (omitting 
error handling):

def shutdown():
    for i in range(len(_handlers)):
        for h in _handlers.keys():
            h.flush()
    for h in _handlers.keys():
        h.close()

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There is indeed a problem - thanks for the report. Rather
than your proposed solution, I would rather add another
internal list, _handlerList, which holds the handlers in
*reverse* order of creation. When shutting down, (a copy of)
this list is used for the iteration rather than
_handlers.keys().

I may remove _handlers in the future - I can't remember why
I made it a dict rather than a list.

Will check into CVS soon, then mark this as Fixed.

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Now checked into CVS.