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authorcsabella <chekat2@gmail.com>2017-06-01 00:14:19 (GMT)
committerMariatta <Mariatta@users.noreply.github.com>2017-06-01 00:14:19 (GMT)
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bpo-27618: Clarify that threading.Lock is a factory function (GH-1307)
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@@ -371,8 +371,9 @@ All methods are executed atomically.
lock, subsequent attempts to acquire it block, until it is released; any
thread may release it.
- .. versionchanged:: 3.3
- Changed from a factory function to a class.
+ Note that ``Lock`` is actually a factory function which returns an instance
+ of the most efficient version of the concrete Lock class that is supported
+ by the platform.
.. method:: acquire(blocking=True, timeout=-1)