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diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst index aaec588457..2b43ee5e70 100644 --- a/Doc/library/threading.rst +++ b/Doc/library/threading.rst @@ -804,8 +804,10 @@ An event object manages an internal flag that can be set to true with the 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. + This method returns true if and only if the internal flag has been set to + true, either before the wait call or after the wait starts, so it will + always return ``True`` except if a timeout is given and the operation + times out. .. versionchanged:: 3.1 Previously, the method always returned ``None``. |