When the timeout argument is present and not None, it should be a
floating point number specifying a timeout for the operation in seconds
(or fractions thereof). As join() always returns None, you must call
- isAlive() after join() to decide whether a timeout happened -- if the
+ is_alive() after join() to decide whether a timeout happened -- if the
thread is still alive, the join() call timed out.
When the timeout argument is not present or None, the operation will