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| author | Sandro Tosi <sandro.tosi@gmail.com> | 2012-01-03 21:35:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | Sandro Tosi <sandro.tosi@gmail.com> | 2012-01-03 21:35:54 (GMT) |
| commit | 753b79c0731dd867068bf31e29b28c390f5d24d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 79e040fc5a15a27f5ecf08f6b7e38b11712c68b6 /Doc/library | |
| parent | ea320abcae63cadfbc5f57122822acff2bc27dd5 (diff) | |
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Issue #6031: improve serve_forever() description
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/socketserver.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/socketserver.rst b/Doc/library/socketserver.rst index 366dac4..34bcce0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socketserver.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socketserver.rst @@ -153,13 +153,14 @@ Server Objects .. method:: BaseServer.serve_forever(poll_interval=0.5) - Handle requests until an explicit :meth:`shutdown` request. Polls for - shutdown every *poll_interval* seconds. + Handle requests until an explicit :meth:`shutdown` request. + Poll for shutdown every *poll_interval* seconds. Ignores :attr:`self.timeout`. + If you need to do periodic tasks, do them in another thread. .. method:: BaseServer.shutdown() - Tells the :meth:`serve_forever` loop to stop and waits until it does. + Tell the :meth:`serve_forever` loop to stop and wait until it does. .. attribute:: BaseServer.address_family |