[issue1674032] Make threading.Event().wait(timeout=3) return isSet

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> added the comment:

Looking at this, I think this change is fine.  The _Event class itself
holds the condition that it's checking for, and the is_set() method
doesn't acquire the lock, so there's no reason to prefer

e.wait()
if e.is_set():
    GOT_IT()

over

if e.wait():
    GOT_IT()

IOW Tim's reasoning in #1175933 for rejecting a similar change to
_Condition.wait() doesn't apply here.  I think we can go ahead without
waiting for Tim to confirm this.

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nosy: +gvanrossum

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