Add note to Queue.get() docs about block=True (GH-2223) (GH-12538)
(cherry picked from commit 713a8ae7926472b02ee1a394633eb54aaa7912d1)
Co-authored-by: Stephen Rosen <sirosen@globus.org>
diff --git a/Doc/library/queue.rst b/Doc/library/queue.rst
index 7335a64..0a42da1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/queue.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/queue.rst
@@ -152,6 +152,11 @@
Otherwise (*block* is false), return an item if one is immediately available,
else raise the :exc:`Empty` exception (*timeout* is ignored in that case).
+ Prior to 3.0 on POSIX systems, and for all versions on Windows, if
+ *block* is true and *timeout* is ``None``, this operation goes into
+ an uninterruptible wait on an underlying lock. This means that no exceptions
+ can occur, and in particular a SIGINT will not trigger a :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt`.
+
.. method:: Queue.get_nowait()