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diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-policy.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-policy.rst index 7bb1c15..61727d4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/asyncio-policy.rst +++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-policy.rst @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ An event loop policy, a global per-process object, controls management of the event loop. Each event loop has a default policy, which can be changed and customized using the API. -A policy defines the notion of context and manages a +A policy defines the notion of *context* and manages a separate event loop per context. The default policy -defines context to be the current thread. +defines *context* to be the current thread. By using a custom event loop policy, the behavior of :func:`get_event_loop`, :func:`set_event_loop`, and @@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ asyncio ships with the following built-in policies: The default asyncio policy. Uses :class:`SelectorEventLoop` on both Unix and Windows platforms. - There is no need to install the default policy manually; asyncio - is configured to use it automatically. + There is no need to install the default policy manually. asyncio + is configured to use the default policy automatically. .. class:: WindowsProactorEventLoopPolicy @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ by default) and :class:`FastChildWatcher`. See also the :ref:`Subprocess and Threads <asyncio-subprocess-threads>` section. -The following two functions can be used to customize the watcher +The following two functions can be used to customize the child process watcher implementation used by the asyncio event loop: .. function:: get_child_watcher() @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ implementation used by the asyncio event loop: handling a big number of processes (*O(n)* each time a :py:data:`SIGCHLD` is received). - asyncio uses this implementation by default. + asyncio uses this safe implementation by default. .. class:: FastChildWatcher |