From: Brett Cannon Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:28:28 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Merged revisions 83080 via svnmerge from X-Git-Tag: v3.1.3rc1~473 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b0a3074d92cd31639ee985cf8293be9034f9b8bc;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git 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. ........ --- diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst index f642111d2c24..68d0304fae9f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/threading.rst +++ b/Doc/library/threading.rst @@ -299,8 +299,8 @@ 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. .. attribute:: daemon