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r61063 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-02-25 17:29:19 +0100 (Mon, 25 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Move .setupterm() output so that we don't try to call endwin() if it fails
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r61064 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-02-25 17:29:58 +0100 (Mon, 25 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Use file descriptor for real stdout
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r61067 | facundo.batista | 2008-02-25 19:06:00 +0100 (Mon, 25 Feb 2008) | 4 lines
Issue 2117. Update compiler module to handle class decorators.
Thanks Thomas Herve
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r61069 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-25 21:17:56 +0100 (Mon, 25 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Rename sphinx.addons to sphinx.ext.
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r61071 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-25 21:20:45 +0100 (Mon, 25 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Revert r61029.
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r61072 | facundo.batista | 2008-02-25 23:33:55 +0100 (Mon, 25 Feb 2008) | 4 lines
Issue 2168. gdbm and dbm needs to be iterable; this fixes a
failure in the shelve module. Thanks Thomas Herve.
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r61073 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-25 23:42:32 +0100 (Mon, 25 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Make sure the itertools filter functions give the same performance for func=bool as func=None.
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r61074 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-26 00:17:41 +0100 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Revert part of r60927 which made invalid assumptions about the API offered by db modules.
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r61075 | facundo.batista | 2008-02-26 00:46:02 +0100 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008) | 3 lines
Coerced PyBool_Type to be able to compare it.
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r61076 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-26 03:46:54 +0100 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Docs for itertools.combinations(). Implementation in forthcoming checkin.
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r61077 | neal.norwitz | 2008-02-26 05:50:37 +0100 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008) | 3 lines
Don't use a hard coded port. This test could hang/fail if the port is in use.
Speed this test up by avoiding a sleep and using the event.
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r61078 | neal.norwitz | 2008-02-26 06:12:50 +0100 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Whitespace normalization
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r61079 | neal.norwitz | 2008-02-26 06:23:51 +0100 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Whitespace normalization
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r61080 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-26 07:40:10 +0100 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Banish tab.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/thread.rst b/Doc/library/thread.rst
index d7d140e..31d58e7 100644
--- a/Doc/library/thread.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/thread.rst
@@ -147,11 +147,6 @@
exception will be received by an arbitrary thread. (When the :mod:`signal`
module is available, interrupts always go to the main thread.)
-* The import machinery is not thread safe. In general, an import may not
- have the side effect of importing a module, and only the main thread
- should import modules. Imports within or caused by a thread other than
- the main thread isn't safe.
-
* Calling :func:`sys.exit` or raising the :exc:`SystemExit` exception is
equivalent to calling :func:`exit`.
@@ -172,3 +167,4 @@
* When the main thread exits, it does not do any of its usual cleanup (except
that :keyword:`try` ... :keyword:`finally` clauses are honored), and the
standard I/O files are not flushed.
+