From 6a36b8e58697a980f2d77f67ca00b06c82c3d6a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 01:18:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [3.11] Clarifying the documentation on library/syslog
(GH-92587) (GH-95492)
(cherry picked from commit b7ce4625fe2a8a4d6c1db6b39b52c7f97d384caa)
Co-authored-by: Nicolas Haller <nicolas@haller.im>
---
Doc/library/syslog.rst | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Doc/library/syslog.rst b/Doc/library/syslog.rst
index 16093d5aac7..766ff57cc66 100644
--- a/Doc/library/syslog.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/syslog.rst
@@ -31,10 +31,15 @@ The module defines the following functions:
value given in the :func:`openlog` call is used.
If :func:`openlog` has not been called prior to the call to :func:`syslog`,
- ``openlog()`` will be called with no arguments.
+ :func:`openlog` will be called with no arguments.
.. audit-event:: syslog.syslog priority,message syslog.syslog
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.2
+ In previous versions, :func:`openlog` would not be called automatically if
+ it wasn't called prior to the call to :func:`syslog`, deferring to the syslog
+ implementation to call ``openlog()``.
+
.. function:: openlog([ident[, logoption[, facility]]])
@@ -53,8 +58,7 @@ The module defines the following functions:
.. versionchanged:: 3.2
In previous versions, keyword arguments were not allowed, and *ident* was
- required. The default for *ident* was dependent on the system libraries,
- and often was ``python`` instead of the name of the Python program file.
+ required.
.. function:: closelog()
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