diff --git a/Doc/howto/logging.rst b/Doc/howto/logging.rst
index 1916c47..da603a3 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/logging.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/logging.rst
@@ -122,7 +122,8 @@
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 A very common situation is that of recording logging events in a file, so let's
-look at that next::
+look at that next. Be sure to try the following in a newly-started Python
+interpreter, and don't just continue from the session described above::
 
    import logging
    logging.basicConfig(filename='example.log',level=logging.DEBUG)