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authorEmmanuel Arias <eamanu@yaerobi.com>2021-09-17 22:58:20 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-09-17 22:58:20 (GMT)
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[doc] Clarify exception in `multiprocessing.cpu_count` (GH-23660)
Previous wording didn't explain the slightly unintuitive behavior. Co-authored-by: kj <28750310+Fidget-Spinner@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -951,7 +951,8 @@ Miscellaneous
use. The number of usable CPUs can be obtained with
``len(os.sched_getaffinity(0))``
- May raise :exc:`NotImplementedError`.
+ When the number of CPUs cannot be determined a :exc:`NotImplementedError`
+ is raised.
.. seealso::
:func:`os.cpu_count`