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| author | csabella <chekat2@gmail.com> | 2017-06-01 00:14:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mariatta <Mariatta@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-06-01 00:14:19 (GMT) |
| commit | 56ddfd2eea4d98456a9a99bf2a718f21ee6b2be2 (patch) | |
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| parent | a5aa72ac789052411797c6f079ffff0a9fdbf82c (diff) | |
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bpo-27618: Clarify that threading.Lock is a factory function (GH-1307)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst index 2792dfd..cda859f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/threading.rst +++ b/Doc/library/threading.rst @@ -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) |