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| author | csabella <cheryl.sabella@gmail.com> | 2017-06-01 01:53:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mariatta <Mariatta@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-06-01 01:53:24 (GMT) |
| commit | 9abd0bf68f73b3beb56954e22740f0efcf04bc79 (patch) | |
| tree | 44b79a16fad6019bd34f10fffb9bf594d25ca044 /Doc/library | |
| parent | 767b6d7d2da6823f71d10e6eeae24451db115c61 (diff) | |
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bpo-27618: Clarify that threading.Lock is a factory function (GH-1307) (GH-1894)
(cherry picked from commit 56ddfd2eea4d98456a9a99bf2a718f21ee6b2be2)
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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) |