[Python-checkins] r83082 - in python/branches/release27-maint: Doc/library/threading.rst

[brett.cannon]

Author: brett.cannon
Date: Fri Jul 23 14:30:10 2010
New Revision: 83082

Log:
Merged revisions 83080 via svnmerge from 
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  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.
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Modified:
   python/branches/release27-maint/   (props changed)
   python/branches/release27-maint/Doc/library/threading.rst

Modified: python/branches/release27-maint/Doc/library/threading.rst
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--- python/branches/release27-maint/Doc/library/threading.rst	(original)
+++ python/branches/release27-maint/Doc/library/threading.rst	Fri Jul 23 14:30:10 2010
@@ -319,8 +319,8 @@
 
       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()