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| author | Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> | 2010-03-12 09:16:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> | 2010-03-12 09:16:10 +0000 |
| commit | ecfa08fdf8de5fc72d9dd891b9a6c443bdee897d (patch) | |
| tree | 11e6418fa17af59ae43e9c3b54795d4e919dbcdf | |
| parent | 9098ee43607340769d1dddf88522cc1bf9b1788f (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-ecfa08fdf8de5fc72d9dd891b9a6c443bdee897d.tar.gz | |
Issue #8117: Updated NEWS entry and added to logging documentation.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/logging.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst index d9824fdaf2..3d2eeef9ec 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst @@ -1894,6 +1894,11 @@ timed intervals. 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. + + When computing the next rollover time for the first time (when the handler + is created), the last modification time of an existing log file, or else + the current time, is used to compute when the next rotation will occur. + If the *utc* argument is true, times in UTC will be used; otherwise local time is used. @@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- -- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time. +- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time + for TimedRotatingFileHandler by using the modification time of an existing + log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist, + the current time is used as the basis for the computation. - Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The cElementTree module is updated too. |