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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2014-07-19 20:45:24 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2014-07-19 20:45:24 (GMT)
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Issue #22006: Merge from 3.4.
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@@ -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.