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Author tim.peters
Recipients Tamas.K, csernazs, grahamd, jcea, ncoghlan, neologix, pitrou, python-dev, tim.peters
Date 2013-09-04.21:57:42
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Oops!  The docs are wrong - a negative timeout actually raises:

ValueError: timeout value must be strictly positive

unless the timeout is exactly -1.  All the more reason to ensure that a negative waittime isn't passed.

I opened a different issue about the doc glitch.
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2013-09-04 21:57:42tim.peterssetrecipients: + tim.peters, jcea, csernazs, ncoghlan, pitrou, grahamd, neologix, python-dev, Tamas.K
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