commit b2a8a30b0d81640c212a4325d59868a75f2ea837
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Fri Sep 17 16:19:00 2021 -0700
committer Pablo Galindo <pablogsal@gmail.com> Wed Sep 29 12:35:06 2021 +0100
tree d9a64b6d7f63699dcb558586633f6d3fc648b123
parent 84d56ec4bc0cb44629ba898a30eece48546828d2

[doc] Clarify exception in `multiprocessing.cpu_count` (GH-23660) (GH-28433)

Previous wording didn't explain the slightly unintuitive behavior.

Co-authored-by: kj <28750310+Fidget-Spinner@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit 24dbe30f8df80740704db3743d071b3218d1276e)

Co-authored-by: Emmanuel Arias <eamanu@yaerobi.com>

Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 0007591..7225b65 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -951,7 +951,8 @@
    use.  The number of usable CPUs can be obtained with
    ``len(os.sched_getaffinity(0))``
 
-   May raise :exc:`NotImplementedError`.
+   When the number of CPUs cannot be determined a :exc:`NotImplementedError`
+   is raised.
 
    .. seealso::
       :func:`os.cpu_count`