Commit 771b961d authored by Richard Oudkerk's avatar Richard Oudkerk

Issue #14206: Clarify docs for Queue.join_cancel_thread().

parents b0be6245 d7d3f376
......@@ -659,6 +659,13 @@ For an example of the usage of queues for interprocess communication see
the background thread from being joined automatically when the process
exits -- see :meth:`join_thread`.
A better name for this method might be
``allow_exit_without_flush()``. It is likely to cause enqueued
data to lost, and you almost certainly will not need to use it.
It is really only there if you need the current process to exit
immediately without waiting to flush enqueued data to the
underlying pipe, and you don't care about lost data.
.. class:: SimpleQueue()
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