diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/library/_thread.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/_thread.rst | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/_thread.rst b/Doc/library/_thread.rst index 369e9cd..fae2781 100644 --- a/Doc/library/_thread.rst +++ b/Doc/library/_thread.rst @@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ It defines the following constants and functions: Raised on thread-specific errors. + .. versionchanged:: 3.3 + This is now a synonym of the built-in :exc:`RuntimeError`. + .. data:: LockType @@ -90,15 +93,15 @@ It defines the following constants and functions: Return the thread stack size used when creating new threads. The optional *size* argument specifies the stack size to be used for subsequently created threads, and must be 0 (use platform or configured default) or a positive - integer value of at least 32,768 (32kB). If changing the thread stack size is - unsupported, a :exc:`ThreadError` is raised. If the specified stack size is - invalid, a :exc:`ValueError` is raised and the stack size is unmodified. 32kB + integer value of at least 32,768 (32 KiB). If changing the thread stack size is + unsupported, a :exc:`RuntimeError` is raised. If the specified stack size is + invalid, a :exc:`ValueError` is raised and the stack size is unmodified. 32 KiB is currently the minimum supported stack size value to guarantee sufficient stack space for the interpreter itself. Note that some platforms may have particular restrictions on values for the stack size, such as requiring a - minimum stack size > 32kB or requiring allocation in multiples of the system + minimum stack size > 32 KiB or requiring allocation in multiples of the system memory page size - platform documentation should be referred to for more - information (4kB pages are common; using multiples of 4096 for the stack size is + information (4 KiB pages are common; using multiples of 4096 for the stack size is the suggested approach in the absence of more specific information). Availability: Windows, systems with POSIX threads. |