[issue9726] logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler: implement "preserve log file name extension" feature

Vinay Sajip added the comment: You can do this by subclassing RotatingFileHandler and overriding doRollover, as per this example: http://plumberjack.blogspot.com/2010/09/using-custom-file-naming-scheme-for.html -- resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed __

[issue9726] logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler: implement "preserve log file name extension" feature

Vinay Sajip added the comment: Only bug-fixes are supposed to go into 2.7, so reclassifying. -- assignee: -> vinay.sajip nosy: +vinay.sajip versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker

[issue9726] logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler: implement "preserve log file name extension" feature

New submission from Desmond Cox : See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4NET-64 - "[PATCH] to RollingFileAppender.cs to add the ability to preserve the log file name extension when rolling the log file." Currently, rollover appends a numeric extension to the base file name. E.g.: app.l