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authorEric Smith <eric@trueblade.com>2009-06-04 17:58:15 (GMT)
committerEric Smith <eric@trueblade.com>2009-06-04 17:58:15 (GMT)
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Minor documentation fixes for logging.
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/logging.rst4
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diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst
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--- a/Doc/library/logging.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ message::
DEBUG:root:This message should go to the log file
If you run the script repeatedly, the additional log messages are appended to
-the file. To create a new file each time, you can pass a filemode argument to
+the file. To create a new file each time, you can pass a *filemode* argument to
:func:`basicConfig` with a value of ``'w'``. Rather than managing the file size
yourself, though, it is simpler to use a :class:`RotatingFileHandler`::
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ application::
The most current file is always :file:`/tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out`,
and each time it reaches the size limit it is renamed with the suffix
``.1``. Each of the existing backup files is renamed to increment the suffix
-(``.1`` becomes ``.2``, etc.) and the ``.5`` file is erased.
+(``.1`` becomes ``.2``, etc.) and the ``.6`` file is erased.
Obviously this example sets the log length much much too small as an extreme
example. You would want to set *maxBytes* to an appropriate value.