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authorAntoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr>2017-09-18 20:04:20 (GMT)
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Restore dummy_threading and _dummy_thread, but deprecate them (bpo-31370) (#3648)
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@@ -23,14 +23,10 @@ threading API built on top of this module.
single: pthreads
pair: threads; POSIX
-The module is optional. It is supported on Windows, Linux, SGI IRIX, Solaris
-2.x, as well as on systems that have a POSIX thread (a.k.a. "pthread")
-implementation. For systems lacking the :mod:`_thread` module, the
-:mod:`_dummy_thread` module is available. It duplicates this module's interface
-and can be used as a drop-in replacement.
-
-It defines the following constants and functions:
+.. versionchanged:: 3.7
+ This module used to be optional, it is now always available.
+This module defines the following constants and functions:
.. exception:: error