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authorPaul Sokolovsky <pfalcon@users.sourceforge.net>2017-11-23 18:03:32 +0200
committerPaul Sokolovsky <pfalcon@users.sourceforge.net>2017-11-23 18:03:32 +0200
commit067bf849d29ab46319740a10561a112376415f51 (patch)
treefe3b1f8fe2bd82c01db19fcd816909fb7669dd81
parentec1e9a10a73d9c5c3771a5797e9eceb62475b197 (diff)
docs/uselect: poll: Explicitly specify that no-timeout value is -1.
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diff --git a/docs/library/uselect.rst b/docs/library/uselect.rst
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@@ -50,10 +50,11 @@ Methods
Modify the *eventmask* for *obj*.
-.. method:: poll.poll([timeout])
+.. method:: poll.poll(timeout=-1)
- Wait for at least one of the registered objects to become ready. Returns
- list of (``obj``, ``event``, ...) tuples, ``event`` element specifies
+ Wait for at least one of the registered objects to become ready, with optional
+ timeout in milliseconds (if *timeout* arg is not specified or -1, there is no
+ timeout). Returns list of (``obj``, ``event``, ...) tuples, ``event`` element specifies
which events happened with a stream and is a combination of ``select.POLL*``
constants described above. There may be other elements in tuple, depending
on a platform and version, so don't assume that its size is 2. In case of