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edit async policy doc - second pass (GH-9235)

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Carol Willing 2018-09-12 17:09:08 -07:00 committed by Yury Selivanov
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@ -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