Commit f1f9675b authored by R David Murray's avatar R David Murray

#23251: Note that time.sleep affects the calling thread only.

This change parallels the language used in the unix man page.
parent e6cc7012
......@@ -342,7 +342,8 @@ The module defines the following functions and data items:
.. function:: sleep(secs)
Suspend execution for the given number of seconds. The argument may be a
Suspend execution of the calling thread for the given number of seconds.
The argument may be a
floating point number to indicate a more precise sleep time. The actual
suspension time may be less than that requested because any caught signal will
terminate the :func:`sleep` following execution of that signal's catching
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