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authorBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2010-07-23 12:28:28 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2010-07-23 12:28:28 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r83080 | brett.cannon | 2010-07-23 13:26:35 +0100 (Fri, 23 Jul 2010) | 5 lines Clarify the wording for threading.is_alive() to not suggest something is "roughly" done. Closes issue 9339. Thanks Brian Brazil for the patch. ........
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@@ -299,8 +299,8 @@ impossible to detect the termination of alien threads.
Return whether the thread is alive.
- Roughly, a thread is alive from the moment the :meth:`start` method
- returns until its :meth:`run` method terminates. The module function
+ This method returns ``True`` just before the :meth:`run` method starts
+ until just after the :meth:`run` method terminates. The module function
:func:`.enumerate` returns a list of all alive threads.
.. attribute:: daemon