From: Vinay Sajip Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:05:16 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Updated Formatter.formatTime docs to indicate configuration via class attributes. X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0a1~2133 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=89c00ce33a82b4ee6b91d802cfa7ba3e47a04bfa;p=python Updated Formatter.formatTime docs to indicate configuration via class attributes. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst index eb2c7189a0..62f04d8d97 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst @@ -453,6 +453,18 @@ The useful mapping keys in a :class:`LogRecord` are given in the section on record. Otherwise, the ISO8601 format is used. The resulting string is returned. + .. versionchanged:: 3.3 + Previously, the default ISO 8601 format was hard-coded as in this + example: ``2010-09-06 22:38:15,292`` where the part before the comma is + handled by a strptime format string (``'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'``), and the + part after the comma is a millisecond value. Because strptime does not + have a format placeholder for milliseconds, the millisecond value is + appended using another format string, ``'%s,%03d'`` – and both of these + format strings have been hardcoded into this method. With the change, + these strings are defined as class-level attributes which can be + overridden at the instance level when desired. The names of the + attributes are ``default_time_format`` (for the strptime format string) + and ``default_msec_format`` (for appending the millisecond value). .. method:: formatException(exc_info)