From: Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:35:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarified documentation on use of shutdown().
X-Git-Tag: v2.6a2~312
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=91f0ee4db6540e85f61c1a3969f62b7928d67fb8;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Clarified documentation on use of shutdown().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst
index 0b2181c28c3e..44979f86b6ac 100644
--- a/Doc/library/logging.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst
@@ -732,7 +732,8 @@ functions.
 .. function:: shutdown()
 
    Informs the logging system to perform an orderly shutdown by flushing and
-   closing all handlers.
+   closing all handlers. This should be called at application exit and no
+   further use of the logging system should be made after this call.
 
 
 .. function:: setLoggerClass(klass)