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r70712 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-30 10:15:38 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line
don't rely on the order dict repr #5605
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r70714 | brett.cannon | 2009-03-30 10:20:53 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line
Add an entry to developers.txt.
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r70764 | martin.v.loewis | 2009-03-30 17:06:33 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 2 lines
Add several VM developers.
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r70765 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-30 17:09:34 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5199: make warning about vars() assignment more visible.
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r70769 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 17:29:53 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line
Remove comment
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r70770 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 17:30:20 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line
Add several items and placeholders
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r70771 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 17:31:11 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line
Many edits
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r70773 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-30 17:43:00 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5039: make it clear that the impl. note refers to CPython.
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r70776 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 18:08:24 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line
typo fix
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r70777 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 18:09:46 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line
Add more items
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r70788 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 20:21:01 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line
Add various items
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r70789 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-30 20:25:15 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line
Fix a wrong struct field assignment (docstring as closure).
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r70824 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 10:43:20 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5519: remove reference to Kodos, which seems dead.
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r70828 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 10:50:16 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5581: fget argument of abstractproperty is optional as well.
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r70832 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 11:31:11 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#1386675: specify WindowsError as the exception, because it has a winerror attribute that EnvironmentError doesnt have.
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r70836 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 11:50:25 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5417: replace references to undocumented functions by ones to documented functions.
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r70842 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 12:13:06 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#970783: document PyObject_Generic[GS]etAttr.
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r70851 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 13:26:55 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#837577: note cryptic return value of spawn*e on invalid env dicts.
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r70855 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 13:30:37 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5245: note that PyRun_SimpleString doesnt return on SystemExit.
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r70857 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 13:33:10 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5227: note that Py_Main doesnt return on SystemExit.
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r70866 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:06:57 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#4882: document named group behavior a bit better.
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r70867 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:10:35 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#1096310: document usage of sys.__std*__ a bit better.
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r70868 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:12:17 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5190: export make_option in __all__.
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r70869 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:14:42 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
Fix-up unwanted change.
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r70870 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:26:24 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#4411: document mro() and __mro__. (I hope I got it right.)
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r70871 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:30:56 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5618: fix typo.
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r70872 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-31 14:31:17 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 3 lines
Delete out-of-date and little-known README from the test
directory by consensus of devs at pycon sprint.
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r70883 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 15:41:08 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#1674032: return value of flag from Event.wait(). OKed by Guido.
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r70885 | tarek.ziade | 2009-03-31 15:48:31 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
using log.warn for sys.stderr
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r70893 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 15:56:32 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#1530012: move TQS section before raw strings.
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r70894 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-31 16:06:30 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
take the usual lock precautions around _active_limbo_lock
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r70896 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 16:15:33 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5598: document DocFileSuite *args argument.
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r70897 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-31 16:34:42 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
fix Thread.ident when it is the main thread or a dummy thread #5632
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r70903 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 16:45:18 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#1676135: remove trailing slashes from --prefix argument.
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r70905 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:03:40 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5563: more documentation for bdist_msi.
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r70906 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:11:53 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#1651995: fix _convert_ref for non-ASCII characters.
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r70907 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:18:19 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#3427: document correct return type for urlopen().info().
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r70915 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:40:16 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5018: remove confusing paragraph.
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r70927 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 18:01:27 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
Dont shout to users.
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r70933 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 19:04:33 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 2 lines
Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
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r70951 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 09:02:27 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Add Maksim, who worked on several issues at the sprint.
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r70960 | jesse.noller | 2009-04-01 11:42:19 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Issue 3270: document Listener address restrictions on windows
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r70962 | brett.cannon | 2009-04-01 12:07:16 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 2 lines
Ron DuPlain was given commit privileges at PyCon 2009 to work on 3to2.
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r70963 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 12:46:01 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
#5655: fix docstring oversight.
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r70964 | brett.cannon | 2009-04-01 12:52:13 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 2 lines
Paul Kippes was given commit privileges to work on 3to2.
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r70998 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 16:54:21 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
In Pdb, stop assigning values to __builtin__._ which interferes with the one commonly installed by gettext.
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r71001 | brett.cannon | 2009-04-01 18:01:12 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 3 lines
Add my initials to Misc/developers.txt. Names are now sorted by number of
characters in the person's name.
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r71006 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 18:32:17 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Cache the f_locals dict of the current frame, since every access to frame.f_locals overrides its contents with the real locals which undoes modifications made by the debugging user.
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r71008 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-01 19:02:14 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Typo fix
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r71010 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-01 19:11:52 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
fix markup
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r71011 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-01 19:12:47 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
this should be :noindex:
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r71019 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 21:00:01 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Fix test_doctest, missed two assignments to curframe.
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r71037 | r.david.murray | 2009-04-01 23:34:04 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 6 lines
Clarify that datetime strftime does not produce leap seconds and datetime
strptime does not accept it in the strftime behavior section of the
datetime docs.
Closes issue 2568.
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r71056 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-02 12:43:07 -0500 (Thu, 02 Apr 2009) | 2 lines
Actually the displayhook should print the repr.
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r71094 | vinay.sajip | 2009-04-03 05:23:18 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Added warning about logging use from asynchronous signal handlers.
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r71101 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-03 16:43:00 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Add some items
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r71102 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-03 16:44:49 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Fix 'the the'; grammar fix
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r71103 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-03 16:45:29 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Fix 'the the' duplication
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r71106 | vinay.sajip | 2009-04-03 16:58:16 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Clarified warning about logging use from asynchronous signal handlers.
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r71119 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-04-04 00:37:47 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Add helpful link.
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r71123 | r.david.murray | 2009-04-04 01:39:56 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 2 lines
Fix error in description of 'oct' (issue 5678).
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r71149 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-04 08:42:39 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 1 line
#5642: clarify map() compatibility to the builtin.
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r71150 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-04 08:45:49 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 1 line
#5601: clarify that webbrowser is not meant for file names.
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r71203 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-04 18:46:34 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 1 line
note how using iter* are unsafe while mutating and document iter(dict)
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r71212 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:24:20 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line
#1742837: expand HTTP server docs, and fix SocketServer ones to document methods as methods, not functions.
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r71214 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:29:57 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Normalize spelling of Mac OS X.
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r71215 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:32:26 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Avoid sure signs of a diseased mind.
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r71216 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:41:02 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line
#1718017: document the relation of os.path and the posixpath, ntpath etc. modules better.
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r71217 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:48:47 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line
#1726172: dont raise an unexpected IndexError if a voidresp() call has an empty response.
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r71221 | vinay.sajip | 2009-04-05 06:06:24 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Issue #5695: Moved logging.captureWarnings() call inside with statement in WarningsTest.test_warnings.
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r71240 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 09:40:06 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line
#5370: doc update about unpickling objects with custom __getattr__ etc. methods.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst
index 6090568..12cf2e8 100644
--- a/Doc/library/threading.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/threading.rst
@@ -676,14 +676,20 @@
.. method:: Event.wait([timeout])
- Block until the internal flag is true. If the internal flag is true on entry,
- return immediately. Otherwise, block until another thread calls :meth:`set` to
- set the flag to true, or until the optional timeout occurs.
+ Block until the internal flag is true. If the internal flag is true on entry,
+ return immediately. Otherwise, block until another thread calls :meth:`set`
+ to set the flag to true, or until the optional timeout occurs.
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).
+ This method returns the internal flag on exit, so it will always return
+ ``True`` except if a timeout is given and the operation times out.
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 2.7
+ Previously, the method always returned ``None``.
+
.. _timer-objects: