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r78966 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-14 10:20:59 -0500 (Sun, 14 Mar 2010) | 2 lines
Do not hardcode Expat version. It's possible to build Python with --with-system-expat option.
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r78970 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-03-14 21:58:24 -0500 (Sun, 14 Mar 2010) | 1 line
this little exception dance is pointless
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r79018 | collin.winter | 2010-03-16 22:04:01 -0500 (Tue, 16 Mar 2010) | 1 line
Delete unused import.
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r79026 | vinay.sajip | 2010-03-17 10:05:57 -0500 (Wed, 17 Mar 2010) | 1 line
Issue #8162: logging: Clarified docstring and documentation for disable function.
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r79027 | collin.winter | 2010-03-17 12:36:16 -0500 (Wed, 17 Mar 2010) | 1 line
Avoid hardcoding refcounts in tests.
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r79055 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-03-18 16:30:48 -0500 (Thu, 18 Mar 2010) | 1 line
remove installation of deleted test/output dir
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r79156 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-20 17:21:02 -0500 (Sat, 20 Mar 2010) | 2 lines
Cleanup test_struct using check_warnings.
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r79159 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-20 17:26:42 -0500 (Sat, 20 Mar 2010) | 2 lines
Cleanup test_tarfile, and use check_warnings.
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r79163 | michael.foord | 2010-03-20 19:53:39 -0500 (Sat, 20 Mar 2010) | 1 line
A faulty load_tests in a test module no longer halts test discovery. A placeholder test, that reports the failure, is created instead.
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r79164 | michael.foord | 2010-03-20 19:55:58 -0500 (Sat, 20 Mar 2010) | 1 line
Change order of arguments in a unittest function.
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r79173 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 04:09:38 -0500 (Sun, 21 Mar 2010) | 1 line
Document that GzipFile supports iteration.
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r79176 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 04:17:41 -0500 (Sun, 21 Mar 2010) | 1 line
Introduce copy by slicing, used in later chapters.
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r79194 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-21 06:58:11 -0500 (Sun, 21 Mar 2010) | 2 lines
Use assertRaises and add a specific warning filter.
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r79208 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-03-21 13:47:12 -0500 (Sun, 21 Mar 2010) | 1 line
Add items
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r79212 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 14:01:38 -0500 (Sun, 21 Mar 2010) | 1 line
Fix plural.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst
index c5997ef..347c72c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/logging.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst
@@ -734,7 +734,11 @@
Provides an overriding level *lvl* for all loggers which takes precedence over
the logger's own level. When the need arises to temporarily throttle logging
- output down across the whole application, this function can be useful.
+ output down across the whole application, this function can be useful. Its
+ effect is to disable all logging calls of severity *lvl* and below, so that
+ if you call it with a value of INFO, then all INFO and DEBUG events would be
+ discarded, whereas those of severity WARNING and above would be processed
+ according to the logger's effective level.
.. function:: addLevelName(lvl, levelName)