[I tried to send this as an email to docs@python.org yesterday, but it seems to have gotten eaten, as I don't see the message in the archives.]

Hi all,

The documentation for the multiprocessing module claims:

| Note that the start(), join(), is_alive() and exit_code methods
| should only be called by the process that created the process object.

Two problems with this description:
 1. "exit_code" should be spelled "exitcode"
 2. exitcode is an attribute of the Process class, not a method as
claimed, since the underlying method is decorated with @property

Also, aside from the above documentation issues, if it is true that
it's not safe to query the exitcode from a separate process, should
the exitcode property method include a check like so:

    assert self._parent_pid == os.getpid(), 'can only test a child process'

since start(), join(), and is_alive() all perform this check?

New changeset f50bbae95bc8 by Richard Oudkerk in branch '2.7':
Issue #15818: Typo in docs.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f50bbae95bc8

New changeset 3a5e2f1dce5c by Richard Oudkerk in branch '3.3':
Issue #15818: Typo in docs.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3a5e2f1dce5c

New changeset 4f08d4647f75 by Richard Oudkerk in branch 'default':
Issue #15818: Merge.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4f08d4647f75