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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2005-07-17 21:00:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2005-07-17 21:00:26 (GMT) |
| commit | 75d5106bd0e026ce1bfe5026a62063ee198bc342 (patch) | |
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[ 912943 ] 7.5.6 Thread Objects is too vague
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libthreading.tex b/Doc/lib/libthreading.tex index 3526974..33839a4 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libthreading.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libthreading.tex @@ -594,7 +594,12 @@ unhandled exception -- or until the optional timeout occurs. When the \var{timeout} argument is present and not \code{None}, it should be a floating point number specifying a timeout for the -operation in seconds (or fractions thereof). +operation in seconds (or fractions thereof). As \method{join()} always +returns \code{None}, you must call \method{isAlive()} to decide whether +a timeout happened. + +When the \var{timeout} argument is not present or \code{None}, the +operation will block until the thread terminates. A thread can be \method{join()}ed many times. |