update doc

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 499c7996..67719992 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -873,8 +873,8 @@ Functions
   ``info`` attribute attached to the returned :class:`Process` instances.
   If *attrs* is an empty list it will retrieve all process info (slow).
 
-  If *new_only* is true this function will yield only new processes which
-  appeared since the last time it was called.
+  If *new_only* is true this function will take into consideration only
+  new PIDs which appeared since the last time it was was called.
   Sorting order in which processes are returned is based on their PID.
 
   Example::
@@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ Functions
      3: {'name': 'ksoftirqd/0', 'username': 'root'},
      ...}
 
-  Get new processes since last call::
+  Get only new processes since last call::
 
     >>> for proc in psutil.process_iter(['pid', 'name'], new_only=True):
     ...     print(proc.info)
diff --git a/psutil/__init__.py b/psutil/__init__.py
index e74bb109..a58b452c 100644
--- a/psutil/__init__.py
+++ b/psutil/__init__.py
@@ -1427,8 +1427,9 @@ def process_iter(attrs=None, ad_value=None, new_only=False):
     to returned Process instance.
     If *attrs* is an empty list it will retrieve all process info
     (slow).
-    If *new_only* is true this function will yield only new processes
-    which appeared since the last time it was called.
+
+    If *new_only* is true this function will take into consideration
+    only new PIDs which appeared since the last time it was called.
     """
     def add(pid):
         proc = Process(pid)