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: ...@@ -342,7 +342,8 @@ The module defines the following functions and data items:
.. function:: sleep(secs) .. 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 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 suspension time may be less than that requested because any caught signal will
terminate the :func:`sleep` following execution of that signal's catching terminate the :func:`sleep` following execution of that signal's catching
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