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  r71786 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-21 20:23:08 +0200 (Di, 21 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5757: fix copy-paste error in notify().
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  r71787 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-21 20:24:34 +0200 (Di, 21 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5751: fix escaping of \\n.
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  r71814 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-23 10:44:57 +0200 (Do, 23 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5820: fix bug in usage of getreader().
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  r71815 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-23 10:49:39 +0200 (Do, 23 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Fix rewrapping accident.
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  r71816 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-23 10:49:56 +0200 (Do, 23 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5813: add a reference to the "future statements" section.
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  r71817 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-23 10:52:03 +0200 (Do, 23 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Add link to PEP 236.
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  r71901 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-25 16:50:25 +0200 (Sa, 25 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #3320: fix spelling.
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  r71902 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-25 16:51:31 +0200 (Sa, 25 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5834: use "failure" instead of "error" because the two have different meanings in unittest context.
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  r71903 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-25 17:05:04 +0200 (Sa, 25 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5821: add some capabilities of TarFile's file-like object.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst
index 69593ae..91f6550 100644
--- a/Doc/library/threading.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/threading.rst
@@ -555,12 +555,12 @@
 
 .. method:: Condition.notify()
 
-   Wake up a thread waiting on this condition, if any. Wait until notified or until
-   a timeout occurs. If the calling thread has not acquired the lock when this
-   method is called, a :exc:`RuntimeError` is raised.
+   Wake up a thread waiting on this condition, if any.  If the calling thread
+   has not acquired the lock when this method is called, a :exc:`RuntimeError`
+   is raised.
 
-   This method wakes up one of the threads waiting for the condition variable, if
-   any are waiting; it is a no-op if no threads are waiting.
+   This method wakes up one of the threads waiting for the condition variable,
+   if any are waiting; it is a no-op if no threads are waiting.
 
    The current implementation wakes up exactly one thread, if any are waiting.
    However, it's not safe to rely on this behavior.  A future, optimized