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diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-sync.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-sync.rst index c63447b..4cc9a96 100644 --- a/Doc/library/asyncio-sync.rst +++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-sync.rst @@ -4,6 +4,29 @@ Synchronization primitives ========================== +Locks: + +* :class:`Lock` +* :class:`Event` +* :class:`Condition` +* :class:`Semaphore` +* :class:`BoundedSemaphore` + +Queues: + +* :class:`Queue` +* :class:`PriorityQueue` +* :class:`LifoQueue` +* :class:`JoinableQueue` + +asyncio locks and queues API were designed to be close to classes of the +:mod:`threading` module (:class:`~threading.Lock`, :class:`~threading.Event`, +:class:`~threading.Condition`, :class:`~threading.Semaphore`, +:class:`~threading.BoundedSemaphore`) and the :mod:`queue` module +(:class:`~queue.Queue`, :class:`~queue.PriorityQueue`, +:class:`~queue.LifoQueue`), but they have no *timeout* parameter. The +:func:`asyncio.wait_for` function can be used to cancel a task after a timeout. + Locks ----- |