From 3ab6300218649af25b5bd6bddd42acdbd1d11057 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony S Yu <tsyu80@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:34:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] BUG: fix logging for Python < 2.7.

---
 skimage/__init__.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/skimage/__init__.py b/skimage/__init__.py
index 6bbd9894..bcdaf2b0 100644
--- a/skimage/__init__.py
+++ b/skimage/__init__.py
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ def get_log(name=None):
            http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html
 
     """
-    import logging, sys
+    import logging
 
     if name is None:
         name = 'skimage'
@@ -128,7 +128,11 @@ def _setup_log():
 
     log = logging.getLogger()
 
-    handler = logging.StreamHandler(stream=sys.stdout)
+    try:
+        handler = logging.StreamHandler(stream=sys.stdout)
+    except TypeError:
+        handler = logging.StreamHandler(strm=sys.stdout)
+
     formatter = logging.Formatter(
         '%(name)s: %(levelname)s: %(message)s'
         )