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author | Eric Smith <eric@trueblade.com> | 2009-06-04 18:20:51 (GMT) |
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committer | Eric Smith <eric@trueblade.com> | 2009-06-04 18:20:51 (GMT) |
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r73224 | eric.smith | 2009-06-04 13:58:15 -0400 (Thu, 04 Jun 2009) | 1 line
Minor documentation fixes for logging.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst index cb7c3fa..c647bd4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ 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`:: @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ 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. |