#4206: fix 2.xisms in multiprocessing docs and docstrings.
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
index 90fd178..bf2608d 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
class Pool(object):
'''
- Class which supports an async version of the `apply()` builtin
+ Class which supports an async version of applying functions to arguments.
'''
Process = Process
@@ -135,21 +135,22 @@
def apply(self, func, args=(), kwds={}):
'''
- Equivalent of `apply()` builtin
+ Equivalent of `func(*args, **kwds)`.
'''
assert self._state == RUN
return self.apply_async(func, args, kwds).get()
def map(self, func, iterable, chunksize=None):
'''
- Equivalent of `map()` builtin
+ Apply `func` to each element in `iterable`, collecting the results
+ in a list that is returned.
'''
assert self._state == RUN
return self.map_async(func, iterable, chunksize).get()
def imap(self, func, iterable, chunksize=1):
'''
- Equivalent of `itertool.imap()` -- can be MUCH slower than `Pool.map()`
+ Equivalent of `map()` -- can be MUCH slower than `Pool.map()`.
'''
assert self._state == RUN
if chunksize == 1:
@@ -167,7 +168,7 @@
def imap_unordered(self, func, iterable, chunksize=1):
'''
- Like `imap()` method but ordering of results is arbitrary
+ Like `imap()` method but ordering of results is arbitrary.
'''
assert self._state == RUN
if chunksize == 1:
@@ -185,7 +186,7 @@
def apply_async(self, func, args=(), kwds={}, callback=None):
'''
- Asynchronous equivalent of `apply()` builtin
+ Asynchronous version of `apply()` method.
'''
assert self._state == RUN
result = ApplyResult(self._cache, callback)
@@ -194,7 +195,7 @@
def map_async(self, func, iterable, chunksize=None, callback=None):
'''
- Asynchronous equivalent of `map()` builtin
+ Asynchronous version of `map()` method.
'''
assert self._state == RUN
if not hasattr(iterable, '__len__'):