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diff --git a/Doc/library/imp.rst b/Doc/library/imp.rst index ac1b14b..e245a0c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/imp.rst +++ b/Doc/library/imp.rst @@ -112,10 +112,16 @@ This module provides an interface to the mechanisms used to implement the .. function:: acquire_lock() - Acquires the interpreter's import lock for the current thread. This lock should + Acquire the interpreter's import lock for the current thread. This lock should be used by import hooks to ensure thread-safety when importing modules. On platforms without threads, this function does nothing. + Once a thread has acquired the import lock, the same thread may acquire it + again without blocking; the thread must release it once for each time it has + acquired it. + + On platforms without threads, this function does nothing. + .. function:: release_lock() |