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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/import.rst b/Doc/c-api/import.rst index b168751..6de3fb0 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/import.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/import.rst @@ -30,13 +30,13 @@ Importing Modules .. c:function:: PyObject* PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock(const char *name) - This version of :c:func:`PyImport_ImportModule` does not block. It's intended - to be used in C functions that import other modules to execute a function. - The import may block if another thread holds the import lock. The function - :c:func:`PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock` never blocks. It first tries to fetch - the module from sys.modules and falls back to :c:func:`PyImport_ImportModule` - unless the lock is held, in which case the function will raise an - :exc:`ImportError`. + This function is a deprecated alias of :c:func:`PyImport_ImportModule`. + + .. versionchanged:: 3.3 + This function used to fail immediately when the import lock was held + by another thread. In Python 3.3 though, the locking scheme switched + to per-module locks for most purposes, so this function's special + behaviour isn't needed anymore. .. c:function:: PyObject* PyImport_ImportModuleEx(char *name, PyObject *globals, PyObject *locals, PyObject *fromlist) |