Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 05:26:36 CET 2012

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On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 04:15:08 +1100
> Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> > Possibly because it is 4am here, I had to read this three times to
> understand it.
> > How is this instead?
> >
> > """
> > Check if child process has terminated. Returns None while the child is
> still running,
> > any non-None value means that the child has terminated. In either case,
> the return
> > value is also available from the instance's returncode attribute.
> > """
>
> I like this wording.
>

Steven's proposed wording sounds good to me, too.

Cheers,
Nick.

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