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

Irit Katriel added the comment: see also issue41825, issue34278, issue27808. -- components: +Library (Lib) nosy: +iritkatriel ___ Python tracker ___ __

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

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-zero resour

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

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 describ