From: Eric Smith Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 18:15:48 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Merged revisions 73224 via svnmerge from X-Git-Tag: v2.6.3rc1~214 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=687f5407375b9696f11ad6a7d6f21f6bdb8a93e0;p=python Merged revisions 73224 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r73224 | eric.smith | 2009-06-04 13:58:15 -0400 (Thu, 04 Jun 2009) | 1 line Minor documentation fixes for logging. ........ --- diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst index a3b132646f..83ba84844b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ 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`:: @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ 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.