bpo-32114: Updated the documentation for get_event_loop to reflect the policy change (#4510)

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Pablo Galindo 2017-12-10 17:34:59 +00:00 committed by Yury Selivanov
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@ -189,10 +189,15 @@ An event loop policy must implement the following interface:
The default policy defines context as the current thread, and manages an event
loop per thread that interacts with :mod:`asyncio`. If the current thread
doesn't already have an event loop associated with it, the default policy's
:meth:`~AbstractEventLoopPolicy.get_event_loop` method creates one when
called from the main thread, but raises :exc:`RuntimeError` otherwise.
loop per thread that interacts with :mod:`asyncio`. An exception to this rule
happens when :meth:`~AbstractEventLoopPolicy.get_event_loop` is called from a
running future/coroutine, in which case it will return the current loop
running that future/coroutine.
If the current thread doesn't already have an event loop associated with it,
the default policy's :meth:`~AbstractEventLoopPolicy.get_event_loop` method
creates one when called from the main thread, but raises :exc:`RuntimeError`
otherwise.
Access to the global loop policy