From: Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 22:45:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Issue #19789: Clarified documentation for logging.disable.
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Issue #19789: Clarified documentation for logging.disable.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst
index 375150171940..29e9617283e4 100644
--- a/Doc/library/logging.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst
@@ -987,8 +987,10 @@ functions.
    effect is to disable all logging calls of severity *lvl* and below, so that
    if you call it with a value of INFO, then all INFO and DEBUG events would be
    discarded, whereas those of severity WARNING and above would be processed
-   according to the logger's effective level. To undo the effect of a call to
-   ``logging.disable(lvl)``, call ``logging.disable(logging.NOTSET)``.
+   according to the logger's effective level. If
+   ``logging.disable(logging.NOTSET)`` is called, it effectively removes this
+   overriding level, so that logging output again depends on the effective
+   levels of individual loggers.
 
 
 .. function:: addLevelName(lvl, levelName)