From 70beff110536c29ca47fcbd28c147183fa1920c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Dickinson Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 21:47:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Issue #22006: Remove outdated thread module caveat. Thanks Dan O'Reilly for the report. --- Doc/library/thread.rst | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/thread.rst b/Doc/library/thread.rst index 15859d1f26..8a625f8a5b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/thread.rst +++ b/Doc/library/thread.rst @@ -159,10 +159,6 @@ In addition to these methods, lock objects can also be used via the * Calling :func:`sys.exit` or raising the :exc:`SystemExit` exception is equivalent to calling :func:`thread.exit`. -* Not all built-in functions that may block waiting for I/O allow other threads - to run. (The most popular ones (:func:`time.sleep`, :meth:`file.read`, - :func:`select.select`) work as expected.) - * It is not possible to interrupt the :meth:`acquire` method on a lock --- the :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt` exception will happen after the lock has been acquired. -- 2.50.1