bpo-32934: Clarified meaning of 'capacity' for BufferingHandler and MemoryHandler. (GH-14498)

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/howto/logging-cookbook.rst b/Doc/howto/logging-cookbook.rst
index 71f9fc9..87ac79e 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/logging-cookbook.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/logging-cookbook.rst
@@ -2266,9 +2266,9 @@ The script just arranges to decorate ``foo`` with a decorator which will do the
 conditional logging that's required. The decorator takes a logger as a parameter
 and attaches a memory handler for the duration of the call to the decorated
 function. The decorator can be additionally parameterised using a target handler,
-a level at which flushing should occur, and a capacity for the buffer. These
-default to a :class:`~logging.StreamHandler` which writes to ``sys.stderr``,
-``logging.ERROR`` and ``100`` respectively.
+a level at which flushing should occur, and a capacity for the buffer (number of
+records buffered). These default to a :class:`~logging.StreamHandler` which
+writes to ``sys.stderr``, ``logging.ERROR`` and ``100`` respectively.
 
 Here's the script::
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst b/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst
index 703d66d..df5bfef 100644
--- a/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst
@@ -861,7 +861,8 @@ should, then :meth:`flush` is expected to do the flushing.
 
 .. class:: BufferingHandler(capacity)
 
-   Initializes the handler with a buffer of the specified capacity.
+   Initializes the handler with a buffer of the specified capacity. Here,
+   *capacity* means the number of logging records buffered.
 
 
    .. method:: emit(record)
@@ -885,12 +886,13 @@ should, then :meth:`flush` is expected to do the flushing.
 .. class:: MemoryHandler(capacity, flushLevel=ERROR, target=None, flushOnClose=True)
 
    Returns a new instance of the :class:`MemoryHandler` class. The instance is
-   initialized with a buffer size of *capacity*. If *flushLevel* is not specified,
-   :const:`ERROR` is used. If no *target* is specified, the target will need to be
-   set using :meth:`setTarget` before this handler does anything useful. If
-   *flushOnClose* is specified as ``False``, then the buffer is *not* flushed when
-   the handler is closed. If not specified or specified as ``True``, the previous
-   behaviour of flushing the buffer will occur when the handler is closed.
+   initialized with a buffer size of *capacity* (number of records buffered).
+   If *flushLevel* is not specified, :const:`ERROR` is used. If no *target* is
+   specified, the target will need to be set using :meth:`setTarget` before this
+   handler does anything useful. If *flushOnClose* is specified as ``False``,
+   then the buffer is *not* flushed when the handler is closed. If not specified
+   or specified as ``True``, the previous behaviour of flushing the buffer will
+   occur when the handler is closed.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.6
       The *flushOnClose* parameter was added.