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authorNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2016-03-29 21:06:22 -0400
committerNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2016-03-29 21:06:22 -0400
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Add mentions to the docs about the need for the C extension
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@@ -104,7 +104,9 @@ Coverage.py can measure multi-threaded programs by default. If you are using
more exotic concurrency, with the `multiprocessing`_, `greenlet`_, `eventlet`_,
or `gevent`_ libraries, then coverage.py will get very confused. Use the
``--concurrency`` switch to properly measure programs using these libraries.
-Give it a value of ``greenlet``, ``eventlet``, or ``gevent``.
+Give it a value of ``multiprocessing``, ``thread``, ``greenlet``, ``eventlet``,
+or ``gevent``. Values other than ``thread`` require the :ref:`C extension
+<install_extension>`.
.. _multiprocessing: https://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html
.. _greenlet: http://greenlet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/