From 5efb4913491155a84895a480e871df04b174edfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mahendra <mahendra.g@cisinlabs.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 18:42:21 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] add docstring for set_thread methrod in helper_msgcoding

---
 src/helper_threading.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/helper_threading.py b/src/helper_threading.py
index 2f8d2921..102c2cc0 100644
--- a/src/helper_threading.py
+++ b/src/helper_threading.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ try:
     import prctl
 
     def set_thread_name(name):
+        """Set a name for the thread for python internal use."""
         prctl.set_name(name)
 
     def _thread_name_hack(self):
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ try:
     threading.Thread._Thread__bootstrap = _thread_name_hack
 except ImportError:
     def set_thread_name(name):
+        """Set the thread name for external use (visible from the OS)."""
         threading.current_thread().name = name