[issue38802] Clearer wording of os.WNOHANG documentation to avoid misinterpretation

2019-11-14 Thread Michael Yagliyan
Michael Yagliyan added the comment: If this documentation fix will not be backported (i.e. it will only apply to versions *after* the aforementioned bug fix) then a more precise way to phrase that last part would be: "...with the first 2 elements being 0 and the last being an all

[issue38802] Clearer wording of os.WNOHANG documentation to avoid misinterpretation

2019-11-14 Thread Michael Yagliyan
New submission from Michael Yagliyan : For versions 2.7 through 3.9 of https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html, os.WNOHANG is described as returning (0, 0) when no child process status is immediately available. However, both os.wait3() and os.wait4() return 3-element tuples and are