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Clarify that signal.raise_signal() sends signal to the calling thread
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Expand Up @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ The :mod:`signal` module defines the following functions:

.. function:: raise_signal(signum)

Sends a signal to the calling process. Returns nothing.
Sends a signal to the calling thread, not the entire process. Returns nothing.

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  • While we're here, it might be worth mentioning that on POSIX systems, this is equivalent to calling signal.pthread_kill(threading.get_ident(), signum). Or, we could just link to the manpages for raise.
  • This is the correct description for POSIX, but what about Windows?


.. versionadded:: 3.8

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