Method join

Lib/threading.py:1097–1133

Wait until the thread terminates. This blocks the calling thread until the thread whose join() method is called terminates -- either normally or through an unhandled exception or until the optional timeout occurs. When the timeout argument is present and not None, i

(self, timeout=None)

            # current_thread()), and would block.

    def join(self, timeout=None):
        """Wait until the thread terminates.

        This blocks the calling thread until the thread whose join() method is
        called terminates -- either normally or through an unhandled exception
        or until the optional timeout occurs.

        When the timeout argument is present and not None, it should be a
        floating-point number specifying a timeout for the operation in seconds
        (or fractions thereof). As join() always returns None, you must call
        is_alive() after join() to decide whether a timeout happened -- if the
        thread is still alive, the join() call timed out.

        When the timeout argument is not present or None, the operation will
        block until the thread terminates.

        A thread can be join()ed many times.

        join() raises a RuntimeError if an attempt is made to join the current
        thread as that would cause a deadlock. It is also an error to join() a
        thread before it has been started and attempts to do so raises the same
        exception.

        """
        if not self._initialized:
            raise RuntimeError("Thread.__init__() not called")
        if not self._started.is_set():
            raise RuntimeError("cannot join thread before it is started")
        if self is current_thread():
            raise RuntimeError("cannot join current thread")

        # the behavior of a negative timeout isn't documented, but
        # historically .join(timeout=x) for x<0 has acted as if timeout=0
        if timeout is not None:
            timeout = max(timeout, 0)

        self._os_thread_handle.join(timeout)

    @property
    def name(self):