Does logging an error message automatically throw an exception in Python?

No, logging an error message using the `logging` module in Python does *not* automatically throw an exception. Logging is a mechanism for recording events, while exceptions are signals that something went wrong during program execution. You explicitly need to `raise` an exception to interrupt the normal flow of the program. Logging simply records that an error *occurred*, but doesn't stop execution unless you specifically code it to do so.