From 5c01a8d1bdac598a224d28f26d1d290c9b72b4d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Smith Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 18:20:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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. ........ --- Doc/library/logging.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst index cb7c3fa9390..c647bd400ba 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ 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`:: @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ 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.