From: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:45:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention deprecation of PyEval_{Acquire,Release}Lock().
X-Git-Tag: v3.2rc2~139
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ebeb90339de196d97ee197afad5e4e4a7f672a50;p=python

Mention deprecation of PyEval_{Acquire,Release}Lock().
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index d9823ca681..9643dbf186 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -1916,3 +1916,8 @@ require changes to your code:
   occurs, rather than a generic :exc:`~ssl.SSLError`.
 
   (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou, :issue:`10272`.)
+
+* The misleading functions :c:func:`PyEval_AcquireLock()` and
+  :c:func:`PyEval_ReleaseLock()` have been officially deprecated.  The
+  thread-state aware APIs (such as :c:func:`PyEval_SaveThread()`
+  and :c:func:`PyEval_RestoreThread()`) should be used instead.