From 11a3061096cbaa64438008cedf6d97df5e569457 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brett Cannon Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:30:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 83080 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r83080 | brett.cannon | 2010-07-23 13:26:35 +0100 (Fri, 23 Jul 2010) | 5 lines Clarify the wording for threading.is_alive() to not suggest something is "roughly" done. Closes issue 9339. Thanks Brian Brazil for the patch. ........ --- Doc/library/threading.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst index a0a1fdde0a0..f18c959b118 100644 --- a/Doc/library/threading.rst +++ b/Doc/library/threading.rst @@ -319,8 +319,8 @@ impossible to detect the termination of alien threads. Return whether the thread is alive. - Roughly, a thread is alive from the moment the :meth:`start` method - returns until its :meth:`run` method terminates. The module function + This method returns ``True`` just before the :meth:`run` method starts + until just after the :meth:`run` method terminates. The module function :func:`.enumerate` returns a list of all alive threads. .. method:: isDaemon()