Rename thread to _thread and dummy_thread to _dummy_thread. Issue #2875.
diff --git a/Lib/dummy_threading.py b/Lib/dummy_threading.py
index 81028a3..1bb7eee 100644
--- a/Lib/dummy_threading.py
+++ b/Lib/dummy_threading.py
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
The module ``_dummy_threading`` is added to ``sys.modules`` in order
to not have ``threading`` considered imported. Had ``threading`` been
directly imported it would have made all subsequent imports succeed
-regardless of whether ``thread`` was available which is not desired.
+regardless of whether ``_thread`` was available which is not desired.
"""
from sys import modules as sys_modules
-import dummy_thread
+import _dummy_thread
# Declaring now so as to not have to nest ``try``s to get proper clean-up.
holding_thread = False
@@ -16,15 +16,15 @@
holding__threading_local = False
try:
- # Could have checked if ``thread`` was not in sys.modules and gone
+ # Could have checked if ``_thread`` was not in sys.modules and gone
# a different route, but decided to mirror technique used with
# ``threading`` below.
- if 'thread' in sys_modules:
- held_thread = sys_modules['thread']
+ if '_thread' in sys_modules:
+ held_thread = sys_modules['_thread']
holding_thread = True
- # Must have some module named ``thread`` that implements its API
+ # Must have some module named ``_thread`` that implements its API
# in order to initially import ``threading``.
- sys_modules['thread'] = sys_modules['dummy_thread']
+ sys_modules['_thread'] = sys_modules['_dummy_thread']
if 'threading' in sys_modules:
# If ``threading`` is already imported, might as well prevent
@@ -68,11 +68,11 @@
# Put back ``thread`` if we overwrote, else del the entry we made
if holding_thread:
- sys_modules['thread'] = held_thread
+ sys_modules['_thread'] = held_thread
del held_thread
else:
- del sys_modules['thread']
+ del sys_modules['_thread']
del holding_thread
- del dummy_thread
+ del _dummy_thread
del sys_modules