From f78c229b4ec8621a9b15c6396b6c91518e8975d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 03:45:13 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [3.10] bpo-35821: Add an example to Logger.propagate
 documentation. (GH-29841) (GH-29957)

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 Doc/library/logging.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst
index bb1bbf0e3708..ade4a3c6b261 100644
--- a/Doc/library/logging.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst
@@ -80,6 +80,15 @@ is the module's name in the Python package namespace.
       If this evaluates to false, logging messages are not passed to the handlers
       of ancestor loggers.
 
+      Spelling it out with an example: If the propagate attribute of the logger named
+      `A.B.C` evaluates to true, any event logged to `A.B.C` via a method call such as
+      `logging.getLogger('A.B.C').error(...)` will [subject to passing that logger's
+      level and filter settings] be passed in turn to any handlers attached to loggers
+      named `A.B`, `A` and the root logger, after first being passed to any handlers
+      attached to `A.B.C`. If any logger in the chain `A.B.C`, `A.B`, `A` has its
+      `propagate` attribute set to false, then that is the last logger whose handlers
+      are offered the event to handle, and propagation stops at that point.
+
       The constructor sets this attribute to ``True``.
 
       .. note:: If you attach a handler to a logger *and* one or more of its
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