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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2010-04-14 15:44:10 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2010-04-14 15:44:10 (GMT) |
| commit | 7c3e5773954009d65520eb063621cf7724da88e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 12c9dc646c8a80043616bf4fa54e3dedb84df9ca /Misc/NEWS | |
| parent | e53de3dc4a9021b5edabd44fd495df7770b6249c (diff) | |
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Issue #7316: the acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait
loop.
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@@ -312,6 +312,11 @@ C-API Library ------- +- Issue #7316: the acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading` + module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support + relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait + loop. + - Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with Python 2.x and 3.0 |