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diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst index 6b2afef..ea69463 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst @@ -55,10 +55,12 @@ Simple examples Most applications are probably going to want to log to a file, so let's start with that case. Using the :func:`basicConfig` function, we can set up the -default handler so that debug messages are written to a file:: +default handler so that debug messages are written to a file (in the example, +we assume that you have the appropriate permissions to create a file called +*example.log* in the current directory:: import logging - LOG_FILENAME = '/tmp/logging_example.out' + LOG_FILENAME = 'example.log' logging.basicConfig(filename=LOG_FILENAME,level=logging.DEBUG) logging.debug('This message should go to the log file') |