It should be an easy task fill-in the missing docstrings using the verbiage in the regular docs.

Here an attempt at fixing it. See issue-17375-1.patch for Python 3.3

Hope it helps.

Duplicate of #12768?

karl - feel free to review the patch submitted to that issue and offer your insights.

Ah bummer! :) it was already done. :) Well it seems already well commented in the review. :)

Closing this one as duplicate?

New changeset e0ef2bde35c3 by Raymond Hettinger in branch '2.7':
Issue #17375:  Add docstrings to the threading module.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e0ef2bde35c3

Raymond - which patch is it? You didn't specify the contributor in the commit. What about the duplicate issue #12768 where someone also worked to supply a patch? 

Also, you've only committed this to 2.7; why?

> You didn't specify the contributor in the commit.

I'm the contributor.  

> Also, you've only committed this to 2.7; why?
I committed to 2.7 because the 2.7 docs were the source.  
When I get the time, I will build a 3.x version of the update.

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Raymond Hettinger
<report@bugs.python.org>wrote:

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> Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
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> > You didn't specify the contributor in the commit.
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> I'm the contributor.
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Oh, I see. I thought it's taken from one of the two existing patches from
new contributors, either in this issue or #12768.

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> > Also, you've only committed this to 2.7; why?
> I committed to 2.7 because the 2.7 docs were the source.
> When I get the time, I will build a 3.x version of the update.
>

OK.

Attached is a patch built against Python 3.3. I've taken karlcow's patch and used it for Python 3.  I have run the test suite(./python -m test -j3) and the sanity check (make patchcheck) and they worked fine.

New changeset 24429118988b by Georg Brandl in branch '3.3':
Closes #17375: port new threading docstrings from 2.7.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/24429118988b