https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/bb64bc357f0a703c20fb424cb69c59b36be966d6 commit: bb64bc357f0a703c20fb424cb69c59b36be966d6 branch: 3.13 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: vsajip <[email protected]> date: 2025-09-05T22:32:49+01:00 summary:
[3.13] gh-137985: Correct description of Formatter's datefmt param in logging documentation (GH-138530) (GH-138566) (cherry picked from commit 83688950490f26d098a462569201ef8e94378852) Co-authored-by: W. H. Wang <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/logging.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst index 72a526dc4d61de..1a90fbd8bda109 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst @@ -671,8 +671,7 @@ Formatter Objects which is just the logged message. :type fmt: str - :param datefmt: A format string in the given *style* for - the date/time portion of the logged output. + :param datefmt: A format string for the date/time portion of the logged output. If not specified, the default described in :meth:`formatTime` is used. :type datefmt: str @@ -680,7 +679,7 @@ Formatter Objects how the format string will be merged with its data: using one of :ref:`old-string-formatting` (``%``), :meth:`str.format` (``{``) or :class:`string.Template` (``$``). This only applies to - *fmt* and *datefmt* (e.g. ``'%(message)s'`` versus ``'{message}'``), + *fmt* (e.g. ``'%(message)s'`` versus ``'{message}'``), not to the actual log messages passed to the logging methods. However, there are :ref:`other ways <formatting-styles>` to use ``{``- and ``$``-formatting for log messages. _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
