From 89a01cd44bd2fc04e63a1ce3d60d8153e671ddde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vinay Sajip Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 21:17:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added updates with respect to recent changes to TimedRotatingFileHandler. --- Doc/library/logging.rst | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst index 44979f86b6a..775aef41a1b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst @@ -1670,10 +1670,11 @@ timed intervals. 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 rollover - interval. If *backupCount* is nonzero, at most *backupCount* files will be - kept, and if more would be created when rollover occurs, the oldest one is - deleted. + ``%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S`` or a leading portion thereof, depending on the + rollover interval. If *backupCount* is nonzero, at most *backupCount* files + will be kept, and if more would be created when rollover occurs, the oldest + one is deleted. The deletion logic uses the interval to determine which + files to delete, so changing the interval may leave old files lying around. .. method:: TimedRotatingFileHandler.doRollover()