def _fix_261_mplog():
    """necessary for older python's to disable a broken monkeypatch
    in the logging module.  See multiprocessing/util.py for the
    hasattr() check.  At least in Python 2.6.1 the multiprocessing
    module is not imported by logging and as such the test in
    the util fails.
    """
    import logging
    import multiprocessing
    logging.multiprocessing = multiprocessing
