This is why multiprocessing had them nick - the threading module does

On Sep 1, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Nick Coghlan <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

>
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> Interesting - in some of the other work I was doing regarding the  
> PEP 8
> compliant alternative threading API, I noticed that the threading  
> module
> contains similar gems such as:
>
> def Event(*args, **kwds):
>  return _Event(*args, **kwds)
>
> Using a factory function to discourage subclassing is one thing, but  
> why
> name the factory function as if it was a still a class?
>
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