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| author | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2014-07-19 20:45:06 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2014-07-19 20:45:06 (GMT) |
| commit | e004c6cad590c973faabb5e278eab2ae768b214f (patch) | |
| tree | 2475fcd292fa3522e9d7234e46ec3c1bdb01626c /Doc/library/_thread.rst | |
| parent | 0069eac0e582aad4d0399b908f6bcdcb19827151 (diff) | |
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Issue #22006: Remove outdated _thread caveat. Thanks Dan O'Reilly for the report.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/_thread.rst b/Doc/library/_thread.rst index 2e130c1..a787e2f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/_thread.rst +++ b/Doc/library/_thread.rst @@ -176,10 +176,6 @@ In addition to these methods, lock objects can also be used via the * Calling :func:`sys.exit` or raising the :exc:`SystemExit` exception is equivalent to calling :func:`_thread.exit`. -* Not all built-in functions that may block waiting for I/O allow other threads - to run. (The most popular ones (:func:`time.sleep`, :meth:`io.FileIO.read`, - :func:`select.select`) work as expected.) - * It is not possible to interrupt the :meth:`acquire` method on a lock --- the :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt` exception will happen after the lock has been acquired. |