- clean up table markup for readability
- don't use \constant for literals; it's for "defined" constants
- fix various consistency issues
diff --git a/Doc/lib/liblogging.tex b/Doc/lib/liblogging.tex
index 47f56ac..9d81db2 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/liblogging.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/liblogging.tex
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
\section{\module{logging} ---
Logging facility for Python}
-\declaremodule{standard}{logging} % standard library, in Python
+\declaremodule{standard}{logging}
% These apply to all modules, and may be given more than once:
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@
\begin{classdesc}{FileHandler}{filename\optional{, mode}}
Returns a new instance of the \class{FileHandler} class. The specified
file is opened and used as the stream for logging. If \var{mode} is
-not specified, \constant{"a"} is used. By default, the file grows
+not specified, \constant{'a'} is used. By default, the file grows
indefinitely.
\end{classdesc}
@@ -494,8 +494,8 @@
The \class{RotatingFileHandler} class supports rotation of disk log files.
-\begin{classdesc}{RotatingFileHandler}{filename\optional{, mode, maxBytes,
- backupCount}}
+\begin{classdesc}{RotatingFileHandler}{filename\optional{, mode\optional{,
+ maxBytes\optional{, backupCount}}}}
Returns a new instance of the \class{RotatingFileHandler} class. The
specified file is opened and used as the stream for logging. If
\var{mode} is not specified, \code{'a'} is used. By default, the
@@ -635,21 +635,21 @@
you can use it, you need Mark Hammond's Win32 extensions for Python
installed.
-\begin{classdesc}{NTEventLogHandler}{appname
- \optional{, dllname\optional{, logtype}}}
+\begin{classdesc}{NTEventLogHandler}{appname\optional{,
+ dllname\optional{, logtype}}}
Returns a new instance of the \class{NTEventLogHandler} class. The
\var{appname} is used to define the application name as it appears in the
event log. An appropriate registry entry is created using this name.
The \var{dllname} should give the fully qualified pathname of a .dll or .exe
which contains message definitions to hold in the log (if not specified,
-\constant{"win32service.pyd"} is used - this is installed with the Win32
+\code{'win32service.pyd'} is used - this is installed with the Win32
extensions and contains some basic placeholder message definitions.
Note that use of these placeholders will make your event logs big, as the
entire message source is held in the log. If you want slimmer logs, you have
to pass in the name of your own .dll or .exe which contains the message
definitions you want to use in the event log). The \var{logtype} is one of
-\constant{"Application"}, \constant{"System"} or \constant{"Security"}, and
-defaults to \constant{"Application"}.
+\code{'Application'}, \code{'System'} or \code{'Security'}, and
+defaults to \code{'Application'}.
\end{classdesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{close}{}
@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@
logger being an ID rather than a format string. Then, in here,
you could use a dictionary lookup to get the message ID. This
version returns 1, which is the base message ID in
-\constant{win32service.pyd}.
+\file{win32service.pyd}.
\end{methoddesc}
\subsubsection{SMTPHandler}
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@
which can be interpreted by either a human or an external system. The
base
\class{Formatter} allows a formatting string to be specified. If none is
-supplied, the default value of "\%s(message)\\n" is used.
+supplied, the default value of \code{'\%(message)s\e'} is used.
A Formatter can be initialized with a format string which makes use of
knowledge of the \class{LogRecord} attributes - such as the default value
@@ -809,35 +809,40 @@
Currently, the useful mapping keys in a LogRecord are:
-\begin{tableii}{l|l}{formats}{Format}{Description}
-\lineii{\%(name)s}{Name of the logger (logging channel).}
-\lineii{\%(levelno)s}{Numeric logging level for the message (DEBUG, INFO,
-WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL).}
-\lineii{\%(levelname)s}{Text logging level for the message ("DEBUG", "INFO",
-"WARNING", "ERROR", "CRITICAL").}
-\lineii{\%(pathname)s}{Full pathname of the source file where the logging
-call was issued (if available).}
-\lineii{\%(filename)s}{Filename portion of pathname.}
-\lineii{\%(module)s}{Module (name portion of filename).}
-\lineii{\%(lineno)d}{Source line number where the logging call was issued
-(if available).}
-\lineii{\%(created)f}{Time when the LogRecord was created (as returned by
-\code{time.time()}).}
-\lineii{\%(asctime)s}{Human-readable time when the LogRecord was created.
-By default this is of the form ``2003-07-08 16:49:45,896'' (the numbers
-after the comma are millisecond portion of the time).}
-\lineii{\%(msecs)d}{Millisecond portion of the time when the LogRecord
-was created.}
-\lineii{\%(thread)d}{Thread ID (if available).}
-\lineii{\%(process)d}{Process ID (if available).}
-\lineii{\%(message)s}{The logged message, computed as msg \% args.}
+\begin{tableii}{l|l}{code}{Format}{Description}
+\lineii{\%(name)s} {Name of the logger (logging channel).}
+\lineii{\%(levelno)s} {Numeric logging level for the message
+ (\constant{DEBUG}, \constant{INFO},
+ \constant{WARNING}, \constant{ERROR},
+ \constant{CRITICAL}).}
+\lineii{\%(levelname)s}{Text logging level for the message
+ (\code{'DEBUG'}, \code{'INFO'},
+ \code{'WARNING'}, \code{'ERROR'},
+ \code{'CRITICAL'}).}
+\lineii{\%(pathname)s} {Full pathname of the source file where the logging
+ call was issued (if available).}
+\lineii{\%(filename)s} {Filename portion of pathname.}
+\lineii{\%(module)s} {Module (name portion of filename).}
+\lineii{\%(lineno)d} {Source line number where the logging call was issued
+ (if available).}
+\lineii{\%(created)f} {Time when the LogRecord was created (as
+ returned by \function{time.time()}).}
+\lineii{\%(asctime)s} {Human-readable time when the LogRecord was created.
+ By default this is of the form
+ ``2003-07-08 16:49:45,896'' (the numbers after the
+ comma are millisecond portion of the time).}
+\lineii{\%(msecs)d} {Millisecond portion of the time when the
+ \class{LogRecord} was created.}
+\lineii{\%(thread)d} {Thread ID (if available).}
+\lineii{\%(process)d} {Process ID (if available).}
+\lineii{\%(message)s} {The logged message, computed as \code{msg \% args}.}
\end{tableii}
\begin{classdesc}{Formatter}{\optional{fmt\optional{, datefmt}}}
Returns a new instance of the \class{Formatter} class. The
instance is initialized with a format string for the message as a whole,
as well as a format string for the date/time portion of a message. If
-no \var{fmt} is specified, "\%(message)s" is used. If no \var{datefmt}
+no \var{fmt} is specified, \code{\%(message)s'} is used. If no \var{datefmt}
is specified, the ISO8601 date format is used.
\end{classdesc}
@@ -847,7 +852,7 @@
Before formatting the dictionary, a couple of preparatory steps
are carried out. The \var{message} attribute of the record is computed
using \var{msg} \% \var{args}. If the formatting string contains
-\constant{"(asctime)"}, \method{formatTime()} is called to format the
+\code{'(asctime)'}, \method{formatTime()} is called to format the
event time. If there is exception information, it is formatted using
\method{formatException()} and appended to the message.
\end{methoddesc}
@@ -905,7 +910,7 @@
facilitate extension.
\begin{classdesc}{LogRecord}{name, lvl, pathname, lineno, msg, args,
- exc_info}
+ exc_info}
Returns an instance of \class{LogRecord} initialized with interesting
information. The \var{name} is the logger name; \var{lvl} is the
numeric level; \var{pathname} is the absolute pathname of the source
@@ -931,10 +936,11 @@
\subsubsection{Configuration functions}
-The following functions allow the logging module to be configured. Before
-they can be used, you must import \module{logging.config}. Their use is optional -
-you can configure the logging module entirely by making calls to the main
-API (defined in \module{logging} itself) and defining handlers which are declared
+The following functions allow the logging module to be
+configured. Before they can be used, you must import
+\module{logging.config}. Their use is optional --- you can configure
+the logging module entirely by making calls to the main API (defined
+in \module{logging} itself) and defining handlers which are declared
either in \module{logging} or \module{logging.handlers}.
\begin{funcdesc}{fileConfig}{fname\optional{, defaults}}