From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:25:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #5458: add a note when we started to raise RuntimeErrors.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~1881
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2cd82a8383bf328fba4a270b4b5e6a10d9a9b911;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

#5458: add a note when we started to raise RuntimeErrors.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst
index e6616dbcd279..69593ae7b1fd 100644
--- a/Doc/library/threading.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/threading.rst
@@ -21,9 +21,14 @@ The :mod:`dummy_threading` module is provided for situations where
    deprecation of the ``camelCase`` names and they remain fully supported in
    both Python 2.x and 3.x.
 
-This module defines the following functions and objects:
+.. note::
+
+   Starting with Python 2.5, several Thread methods raise :exc:`RuntimeError`
+   instead of :exc:`AssertionError` if called erroneously.
 
 
+This module defines the following functions and objects:
+
 .. function:: active_count()
               activeCount()