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| author | Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com> | 2010-07-23 12:26:35 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com> | 2010-07-23 12:26:35 (GMT) |
| commit | a57edd0e9e24adc8c45ecca2f6f9c14d8cebd9f4 (patch) | |
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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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diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst index 31f1b0e..33cae1e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/threading.rst +++ b/Doc/library/threading.rst @@ -310,8 +310,8 @@ 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 |