[Python-checkins] r73224 - python/trunk/Doc/library/logging.rst
eric.smith
python-checkins at python.org
Thu Jun 4 19:58:15 CEST 2009
Author: eric.smith
Date: Thu Jun 4 19:58:15 2009
New Revision: 73224
Log:
Minor documentation fixes for logging.
Modified:
python/trunk/Doc/library/logging.rst
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/library/logging.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/library/logging.rst (original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/library/logging.rst Thu Jun 4 19:58:15 2009
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
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 @@
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.
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