From 08a9b7c385bbdc36b816fe1d1b29ff87e10082d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:26:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [3.12] gh-129143: Fix incorrect documentation for
 logging.Handler.close(). (GH-129950) (GH-129952)

(cherry picked from commit 7c156a63d3d5aadff0d40af73c0f622f7a0fcea5)
---
 Doc/library/logging.rst | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst
index 22f135bbecd3..5795645f71d1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/logging.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst
@@ -592,10 +592,12 @@ subclasses. However, the :meth:`!__init__` method in subclasses needs to call
 
    .. method:: Handler.close()
 
-      Tidy up any resources used by the handler. This version does no output but
-      removes the handler from an internal list of handlers which is closed when
-      :func:`shutdown` is called. Subclasses should ensure that this gets called
-      from overridden :meth:`close` methods.
+      Tidy up any resources used by the handler. This version does no output
+      but removes the handler from an internal map of handlers, which is used
+      for handler lookup by name.
+
+      Subclasses should ensure that this gets called from overridden :meth:`close`
+      methods.
 
 
    .. method:: Handler.handle(record)
-- 
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