From 75d5106bd0e026ce1bfe5026a62063ee198bc342 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 21:00:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [ 912943 ] 7.5.6 Thread Objects is too vague --- Doc/lib/libthreading.tex | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/libthreading.tex b/Doc/lib/libthreading.tex index 35269748af..33839a4306 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libthreading.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libthreading.tex @@ -594,7 +594,12 @@ unhandled exception -- or until the optional timeout occurs. When the \var{timeout} argument is present and not \code{None}, it should be a floating point number specifying a timeout for the -operation in seconds (or fractions thereof). +operation in seconds (or fractions thereof). As \method{join()} always +returns \code{None}, you must call \method{isAlive()} to decide whether +a timeout happened. + +When the \var{timeout} argument is not present or \code{None}, the +operation will block until the thread terminates. A thread can be \method{join()}ed many times. -- 2.40.0