diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst
index 5f6aa7e2fcc..0119e0cf653 100644
--- a/Doc/library/logging.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ instantiated directly, but always through the module-level function
    If this evaluates to false, logging messages are not passed to the handlers
    of ancestor loggers.
 
-   The constructor sets this attribute to 1.
+   The constructor sets this attribute to ``True``.
 
 
 .. method:: Logger.setLevel(lvl)