From: Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 07:26:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Updated documentation for SysLogHandler (#1720726).
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Updated documentation for SysLogHandler (#1720726).
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diff --git a/Lib/logging/handlers.py b/Lib/logging/handlers.py
index 1024fc3c2976..0739de1ef594 100644
--- a/Lib/logging/handlers.py
+++ b/Lib/logging/handlers.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2001-2005 by Vinay Sajip. All Rights Reserved.
+# Copyright 2001-2007 by Vinay Sajip. All Rights Reserved.
 #
 # Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
 # documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Apache's log4j system.
 Should work under Python versions >= 1.5.2, except that source line
 information is not available unless 'sys._getframe()' is.
 
-Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Vinay Sajip. All Rights Reserved.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Vinay Sajip. All Rights Reserved.
 
 To use, simply 'import logging' and log away!
 """
@@ -566,7 +566,8 @@ class SysLogHandler(logging.Handler):
         """
         Initialize a handler.
 
-        If address is specified as a string, UNIX socket is used.
+        If address is specified as a string, a UNIX socket is used. To log to a
+        local syslogd, "SysLogHandler(address="/dev/log")" can be used.
         If facility is not specified, LOG_USER is used.
         """
         logging.Handler.__init__(self)