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| author | Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> | 2008-04-02 21:17:25 (GMT) |
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| committer | Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> | 2008-04-02 21:17:25 (GMT) |
| commit | 89a01cd44bd2fc04e63a1ce3d60d8153e671ddde (patch) | |
| tree | 1afccac491b5e452ab8b1e8957aee25d1ca0be65 /Doc/library | |
| parent | b7edfc4e179d52274821c2f79213d5b6f70ab44a (diff) | |
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Added updates with respect to recent changes to TimedRotatingFileHandler.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst index 44979f8..775aef4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst @@ -1670,10 +1670,11 @@ timed intervals. The system will save old log files by appending extensions to the filename. The extensions are date-and-time based, using the strftime format - ``%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S`` or a leading portion thereof, depending on the rollover - interval. If *backupCount* is nonzero, at most *backupCount* files will be - kept, and if more would be created when rollover occurs, the oldest one is - deleted. + ``%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S`` or a leading portion thereof, depending on the + rollover interval. If *backupCount* is nonzero, at most *backupCount* files + will be kept, and if more would be created when rollover occurs, the oldest + one is deleted. The deletion logic uses the interval to determine which + files to delete, so changing the interval may leave old files lying around. .. method:: TimedRotatingFileHandler.doRollover() |