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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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diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst
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--- a/Doc/library/threading.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/threading.rst
@@ -319,8 +319,8 @@ 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.
 
    .. method:: isDaemon()