[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Fiddled Thread.join() to be a little simpler. Kinda ; -)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Sat Oct 26 17:42:27 CEST 2013


On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 6:29 AM, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 05:34:05AM +0200, tim.peters wrote:
>>   Fiddled Thread.join() to be a little simpler.  Kinda ;-)
>> -        # else it's a negative timeout - precise behavior isn't documented
>> -        # then, but historically .join() returned in this case
>> +        else:
>> +            # the behavior of a negative timeout isn't documented, but
>> +            # historically .join() has acted as if timeout=0 then
>
> I think the final 'then' on the new comment is an editing error.
> Unless perhaps you meant to write a further sentence of comment?

Reads OK to me.  Read "then" as an abbreviation of "in that case"?


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