From: Irit Katriel <iritkatriel@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 13:16:04 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: bpo-41898: add caveat on root logger seeing all messages in assertLogs doc (GH-22526)
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bpo-41898: add caveat on root logger seeing all messages in assertLogs doc (GH-22526)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
index a52df9ee0157..f04ec91270ee 100644
--- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
@@ -1091,7 +1091,8 @@ Test cases
 
       If given, *logger* should be a :class:`logging.Logger` object or a
       :class:`str` giving the name of a logger.  The default is the root
-      logger, which will catch all messages.
+      logger, which will catch all messages that were not blocked by a
+      non-propagating descendent logger.
 
       If given, *level* should be either a numeric logging level or
       its string equivalent (for example either ``"ERROR"`` or