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Author	arigo
Recipients	arigo, docs@python
Date	2013-01-31.16:58:07
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Message-id	<1359651487.53.0.770851412418.issue17091@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The docstring of thread.lock.acquire() (or _thread on Python 3) is bogus: it says that if called without argument, the return value is None; it is only if called with a "blocking" argument that it returns True or False. But since a long time it was always returning a boolean, never None.

The docstring of thread.lock.acquire() (or _thread on Python 3) is bogus: it says that if called without argument, the return value is None; it is only if called with a "blocking" argument that it returns True or False.  But since a long time it was always returning a boolean, never None.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2013-01-31 16:58:07	arigo	set	recipients: + arigo, docs@python
2013-01-31 16:58:07	arigo	set	messageid: <1359651487.53.0.770851412418.issue17091@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2013-01-31 16:58:07	arigo	create