For threads, and for multiprocessing, it's always been the case that ``args=list`` works fine when passed to ``Process()`` or ``Thread()``, and such code is common in the wild. But, according to the docs, only a tuple can be used. This brings the docs into synch with reality.
Doc changes by Charlie Zhao.
Co-authored-by: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
The snake_case names have existed since Python 2.6, so there is
no reason to keep the old camelCase names around. One similar
method, threading.Thread.isAlive, was already removed in
Python 3.9 (bpo-37804).
The note about the GIL was buried pretty deep in the threading documentation,
and this made it hard for first time users to discover why their attempts
at using threading to parallelizing their application did not work.
In this commit, the note is moved to the top of the module documention for
visibility.
Sphinx 3 requires to refer to terms with the exact case.
For example, fix the Sphinx 3 warning:
Doc/library/pkgutil.rst:71: WARNING: term Loader not found in case
sensitive match.made a reference to loader instead.
Remove duplication in `threading.Thread.native_id` documentation, so resulting documentation is more consistent with the `threading.Thread.ident`.
Issue initially raised [here](https://github.com/python/python-docs-fr/pull/1122#discussion_r369236634) (in French).
No issue associated to this PR.
Automerge-Triggered-By: @csabella
* "Return true/false" is replaced with "Return ``True``/``False``"
if the function actually returns a bool.
* Fixed formatting of some True and False literals (now in monospace).
* Replaced "True/False" with "true/false" if it can be not only bool.
* Replaced some 1/0 with True/False if it corresponds the code.
* "Returns <bool>" is replaced with "Return <bool>".
In a subinterpreter, spawning a daemon thread now raises an
exception. Daemon threads were never supported in subinterpreters.
Previously, the subinterpreter finalization crashed with a Pyton
fatal error if a daemon thread was still running.
* Add _thread._is_main_interpreter()
* threading.Thread.start() now raises RuntimeError if the thread is a
daemon thread and the method is called from a subinterpreter.
* The _thread module now uses Argument Clinic for the new function.
* Use textwrap.dedent() in test_threading.SubinterpThreadingTests
Document reference cycle and resurrected objects issues in
sys.unraisablehook() and threading.excepthook() documentation.
Fix test.support.catch_unraisable_exception(): __exit__() no longer
ignores unraisable exceptions.
Fix test_io test_writer_close_error_on_close(): use a second
catch_unraisable_exception() to catch the BufferedWriter unraisable
exception.
Add a new threading.excepthook() function which handles uncaught
Thread.run() exception. It can be overridden to control how uncaught
exceptions are handled.
threading.ExceptHookArgs is not documented on purpose: it should not
be used directly.
* threading.excepthook() and threading.ExceptHookArgs.
* Add _PyErr_Display(): similar to PyErr_Display(), but accept a
'file' parameter.
* Add _thread._excepthook(): C implementation of the exception hook
calling _PyErr_Display().
* Add _thread._ExceptHookArgs: structseq type.
* Add threading._invoke_excepthook_wrapper() which handles the gory
details to ensure that everything remains alive during Python
shutdown.
* Add unit tests.
Returning EINTR from pthread semaphore or lock acquisition is an optional POSIX
feature. musl does not provide this feature, so some threadsignal tests fail
when Python is built against it.
There's no good way to test for musl, so we skip if we're on Linux and not using
glibc pthreads.
Also, hedge in the threading documentation about when we can provide interrupts
from lock acquisition.
* fix issue32208: update threading.Semaphore docs and add unit test to validate correct behavior
* add test for blocking
* Update threading.rst
* semaphore: remove documentation validation tests and move 'return value' test to BaseSemaphore
Géry Ogam
Charlie Zhao
Irit Katriel
Jelle Zijlstra
Guanzhong Chen
Mario Corchero
Victor Stinner
Antoine
Grant Jenks
idomic
Serhiy Storchaka
Daniel Baskal
Raymond Hettinger
Jake Tesler
Victor Stinner
Michael Felt
David Carlier
Mathieu Dupuy
Cheryl Sabella
Benjamin Peterson
Garrett Berg
Antoine Pitrou
Saurabh Chaturvedi
csabella
Martin Panter
Martin Panter
Senthil Kumaran
Berker Peksag
Georg Brandl
Andrew Svetlov
R David Murray