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[doc] Explain bot.handler_namer function
Change-Id: I27ba557b1da794eb01d47a57e42b05bf03d8f407
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M pywikibot/bot.py
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pywikibot/bot.py b/pywikibot/bot.py
index 87d057a..d85f473 100644
--- a/pywikibot/bot.py
+++ b/pywikibot/bot.py
@@ -306,6 +306,14 @@
def handler_namer(name: str) -> str:
"""Modify the filename of a log file when rotating.
+ RotatingFileHandler will save old log files by appending the
+ extensions ``.1``, ``.2`` etc., to the filename. To keep the
+ original extension, which is usually ``.log``, this function
+ swaps the appended counter with the log extension:
+
+ >>> handler_namer('add_text.log.1')
+ 'add_text.1.log'
+
.. versionadded:: 6.5
"""
path, qualifier = name.rsplit('.', 1)
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