threading is_alive documnetation is unclear

[bbrazil]

BPO	9339
Nosy	@brettcannon
Files	threading-roughly-doc-fix.patch: Clarification of threading is_alive docs.

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title = 'threading is_alive documnetation is unclear'
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[bbrazil]

http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/threading.html

"Roughly, a thread is alive from the moment the start() method returns until its run() method terminates."

Using "Roughly" in relation to threading is a bit unspecific. I've had a look through _bootstrap_inner() and attached a patch to clarify this.

[bbrazil]

Here's a slightly cleaner version.

[brettcannon]

3.2: 83080
3.1: 83081
2.7: 83082