[issue22892] Typo in Library's 'threading' module section

2014-11-17 Thread Martin Gignac
New submission from Martin Gignac: There is an extraenous asterisk in the constructor description for class 'threading.Thread' in section 17.1.2. Thread Objects of the 'threading' module in the Python Standard Library documenation. (patch attached) -- assignee: docs@python

[issue22892] Typo in Library's 'threading' module section

2014-11-17 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks for taking the time to make a report, but that is not a typo. That asterisk indicates that daemon is a keyword only argument, and is standard python3 syntax. You can see it if you follow the source link to the threading module. -- nosy:

[issue22892] Typo in Library's 'threading' module section

2014-11-17 Thread Martin Gignac
Martin Gignac added the comment: Sorry for that. I've read up PEP 3102 and now understand what you meant. Sorry for the noise. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22892 ___