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authorRalph Bean <rbean@redhat.com>2013-01-02 10:50:51 -0500
committerRalph Bean <rbean@redhat.com>2013-01-02 10:50:51 -0500
commit91f7ed4b9450e6f48cbf19c06584cb2fa24afcfc (patch)
tree881a7a4d7c422c6d823b09b146fe988a6663e998
parentfdface8b8dc29e389ccdd6c5daf80014fc4d4eb2 (diff)
downloaddogpile-core-91f7ed4b9450e6f48cbf19c06584cb2fa24afcfc.tar.gz
Docstring comment on threaded_creation.
-rw-r--r--dogpile/core/dogpile.py4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/dogpile/core/dogpile.py b/dogpile/core/dogpile.py
index 01aa274..a55bd6e 100644
--- a/dogpile/core/dogpile.py
+++ b/dogpile/core/dogpile.py
@@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ class Lock(object):
``None`` for never expires. This timestamp is compared
to the creation_time result and ``time.time()`` to determine if
the value returned by value_and_created_fn is "expired".
-
+ :param threaded_creation: A boolean. If True, a background thread
+ is spawned to invoke the creator callable. The responsibility for
+ releasing the mutex is delegated to that new thread.
"""