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gh-114827: clarify threading.Event.wait timeout behavior #114834

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gh-114827: clarify `threading.Event.wait` timeout behavior
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Merge branch 'main' into doc-threading-Event-wait
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion Lib/threading.py
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Expand Up @@ -647,7 +647,8 @@ def wait(self, timeout=None):
(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.
``True`` except if a timeout is given and the operation times out, when
it will return ``False``.

"""
with self._cond:
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