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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-10-28 09:03:20 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-10-28 09:03:20 (GMT)
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#10218: return timeout status from Condition.wait, mirroring other primitives' behavior.
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@@ -574,6 +574,12 @@ needs to wake up one consumer thread.
interface is then used to restore the recursion level when the lock is
reacquired.
+ The return value is ``True`` unless a given *timeout* expired, in which
+ case it is ``False``.
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.2
+ Previously, the method always returned ``None``.
+
.. method:: notify()
Wake up a thread waiting on this condition, if any. If the calling thread