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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-10-06 18:38:17 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-10-06 18:38:17 (GMT) |
| commit | d9c6ab48a0636b6aa753be908946d246a6403275 (patch) | |
| tree | 091719f4b738c933022fba1b8751eb68062da5f3 /Misc | |
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merge #10968: commit threading doc changes and corresponding whatsnew entry.
It is unfortunate that the '_' names were not kept as aliases, and that RLock
was not also converted to a class, but it is now too late to change either of
those things for 3.3.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/HISTORY | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY index c5149be..728402e 100644 --- a/Misc/HISTORY +++ b/Misc/HISTORY @@ -2907,11 +2907,11 @@ Library - Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod') in Python code) now finds the doc of the method. -- Issue #10968: Remove indirection in threading. The public names (Thread, +- Issue #10968: Remove indirection in threading. The public names (Event, Condition, etc.) used to be factory functions returning instances of hidden - classes (_Thread, _Condition, etc.), because (if Guido recalls correctly) this - code pre-dates the ability to subclass extension types. It is now possible to - inherit from Thread and other classes, without having to import the private + classes (_Event, _Condition, etc.), because (if Guido recalls correctly) this + code pre-dates the ability to subclass extension types. It is now possible + to inherit from these classes without having to import the private underscored names like multiprocessing did. - Issue #9723: Add shlex.quote functions, to escape filenames and command |