From e7dbebbadf40b4b2524b015495eaa2aa0c2f82df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Smith Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:58:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 b5553934c61..4847c7090c3 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.