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| author | Stephen Rosen <sirosen@globus.org> | 2019-03-25 19:55:20 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-03-25 19:55:20 (GMT) |
| commit | 713a8ae7926472b02ee1a394633eb54aaa7912d1 (patch) | |
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Add note to Queue.get() docs about block=True (GH-2223)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/queue.rst b/Doc/library/queue.rst index f99f6ff..2eeab5e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/queue.rst +++ b/Doc/library/queue.rst @@ -150,6 +150,11 @@ provide the public methods described below. Otherwise (*block* is false), return an item if one is immediately available, else raise the :exc:`Empty` exception (*timeout* is ignored in that case). + Prior to 3.0 on POSIX systems, and for all versions on Windows, if + *block* is true and *timeout* is ``None``, this operation goes into + an uninterruptible wait on an underlying lock. This means that no exceptions + can occur, and in particular a SIGINT will not trigger a :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt`. + .. method:: Queue.get_nowait() |