John Runyon added the comment:
This is a duplicate of 20468, which has a patch submitted (over a year ago).
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John Runyon added the comment:
*bump*.
This flat-out wrong documentation has already misled several people, and has
had a proposed patch with no comments for over a year.
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John Runyon added the comment:
New proposed patch.
I understand not wanting to document an "internal only name", except that in
this case it rather needs to be documented. I would strongly prefer Angad's
patch to mine because you do, at times, need to know the actual name of the
c
New submission from John Runyon:
the documentation
(https://docs.python.org/2/library/threading.html#threading.Timer) lists
threading.Timer as a class. It is not, which means that (for example) you can
not use it in isinstance(). threading._Timer is a class.
threading.Timer(...).__class__
John Runyon added the comment:
Concise documentation isn't my forte, but my confusion would've been avoided
with a note that for historical reasons, threading.Timer is actually a factory
function for the underlying class threading._Timer or something along those
lines
