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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-10-30 22:23:02 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-10-30 22:23:02 (GMT) |
| commit | 9257f5eecea74cb5d4bac858719584b0354b6d5d (patch) | |
| tree | d7b9cbf9c8578e6f076ae75e27accb952733c44a /Modules | |
| parent | aecd3b77184f5a9a16a26cec39a532a50f1ab191 (diff) | |
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Merged revisions 75969 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r75969 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-30 23:19:09 +0100 (ven., 30 oct. 2009) | 5 lines
Remove official documentation entry for thread._count() and make the
docstring more descriptive instead.
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Diffstat (limited to 'Modules')
| -rw-r--r-- | Modules/_threadmodule.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/_threadmodule.c b/Modules/_threadmodule.c index 81e8984..fe63c4b 100644 --- a/Modules/_threadmodule.c +++ b/Modules/_threadmodule.c @@ -616,8 +616,14 @@ thread__count(PyObject *self) PyDoc_STRVAR(_count_doc, "_count() -> integer\n\ \n\ -Return the number of currently running (sub)threads.\n\ -This excludes the main thread."); +\ +Return the number of currently running Python threads, excluding \n\ +the main thread. The returned number comprises all threads created\n\ +through `start_new_thread()` as well as `threading.Thread`, and not\n\ +yet finished.\n\ +\n\ +This function is meant for internal and specialized purposes only.\n\ +In most applications `threading.enumerate()` should be used instead."); static PyObject * thread_stack_size(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) |