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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-10-06 14:38:17 -0400 |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-10-06 14:38:17 -0400 |
| commit | 89312387875870ae7e6106bbe2a0526201c4d4a8 (patch) | |
| tree | af48522cd886b1b13c8990cd1af4d9946171c68c /Misc | |
| parent | 1a37bfa50b3e30a7294d1e278ad3e252cab3126b (diff) | |
| parent | ce87e9ce9c2a887b19aa153498dffdf1279cb065 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-89312387875870ae7e6106bbe2a0526201c4d4a8.tar.gz | |
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'Misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/HISTORY | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY index c5149be525..728402e25a 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 |