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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 79c5687..96d1424 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ Miscellaneous Return a context object which has the same attributes as the :mod:`multiprocessing` module. - If *method* is *None* then the default context is returned. + If *method* is ``None`` then the default context is returned. Otherwise *method* should be ``'fork'``, ``'spawn'``, ``'forkserver'``. :exc:`ValueError` is raised if the specified start method is not available. @@ -962,10 +962,10 @@ Miscellaneous If the start method has not been fixed and *allow_none* is false, then the start method is fixed to the default and the name is returned. If the start method has not been fixed and *allow_none* - is true then *None* is returned. + is true then ``None`` is returned. The return value can be ``'fork'``, ``'spawn'``, ``'forkserver'`` - or *None*. ``'fork'`` is the default on Unix, while ``'spawn'`` is + or ``None``. ``'fork'`` is the default on Unix, while ``'spawn'`` is the default on Windows. .. versionadded:: 3.4 @@ -2059,7 +2059,7 @@ with the :class:`Pool` class. *maxtasksperchild* is the number of tasks a worker process can complete before it will exit and be replaced with a fresh worker process, to enable - unused resources to be freed. The default *maxtasksperchild* is None, which + unused resources to be freed. The default *maxtasksperchild* is ``None``, which means worker processes will live as long as the pool. *context* can be used to specify the context used for starting @@ -2329,7 +2329,7 @@ multiple connections at the same time. ``None`` then digest authentication is used. If *authkey* is a byte string then it will be used as the - authentication key; otherwise it must be *None*. + authentication key; otherwise it must be ``None``. If *authkey* is ``None`` and *authenticate* is ``True`` then ``current_process().authkey`` is used as the authentication key. If |