From 832d99bdbbf321f1cff4aa2bb8d53b925ca7ab0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vinay Sajip Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 23:24:30 +0000 Subject: Issue #17376: Clarified documentation for TimedRotatingFileHandler weekday rotation. --- Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst b/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst index ef65cfa..ba7cd00 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst @@ -236,11 +236,15 @@ timed intervals. +----------------+-----------------------+ | ``'D'`` | Days | +----------------+-----------------------+ - | ``'W'`` | Week day (0=Monday) | + | ``'W0'-'W6'`` | Weekday (0=Monday) | +----------------+-----------------------+ | ``'midnight'`` | Roll over at midnight | +----------------+-----------------------+ + When using weekday-based rotation, specify 'W0' for Monday, 'W1' for + Tuesday, and so on up to 'W6' for Sunday. In this case, the value passed for + *interval* isn't used. + 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 -- cgit v0.12