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| author | Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> | 2015-05-02 08:46:05 (GMT) |
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| committer | Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> | 2015-05-02 08:46:05 (GMT) |
| commit | bbd95a9361cfa8a97d94f6d598e84dfc5e17a1f6 (patch) | |
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| parent | 755640bf50074a97e15659abe5478e7300d080cc (diff) | |
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Issue #24060: Made logging.Formatter documentation a little clearer.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst index 96861a7..90fb9b0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst @@ -481,7 +481,9 @@ Formatter Objects responsible for converting a :class:`LogRecord` to (usually) a string which can be interpreted by either a human or an external system. The base :class:`Formatter` allows a formatting string to be specified. If none is -supplied, the default value of ``'%(message)s'`` is used. +supplied, the default value of ``'%(message)s'`` is used, which just includes +the message in the logging call. To have additional items of information in the +formatted output (such as a timestamp), keep reading. A Formatter can be initialized with a format string which makes use of knowledge of the :class:`LogRecord` attributes - such as the default value mentioned above |