[Python-Dev] slightly misleading Popen.poll() docs (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 05:26:36 CET 2012
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On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 04:15:08 +1100 Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote: > Possibly because it is 4am here, I had to read this three times to understand it. > How is this instead? > > """ > Check if child process has terminated. Returns None while the child is still running, > any non-None value means that the child has terminated. In either case, the return > value is also available from the instance's returncode attribute. > """
I like this wording.
Steven's proposed wording sounds good to me, too.
Cheers, Nick.
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