From: Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:34:42 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Issue #8890: Documentation changed to avoid reference to temporary files.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7rc1~40
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9a26aabf89c1f64574c350ef1386cb14eec4827d;p=python

Issue #8890: Documentation changed to avoid reference to temporary files.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst
index 6b2afeff14..ea6946362d 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')