Delete some vestigial code; execution will never reach the 'if' statement if args is NULL
diff --git a/Modules/threadmodule.c b/Modules/threadmodule.c
index eccb678..245c51d 100644
--- a/Modules/threadmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/threadmodule.c
@@ -63,12 +63,7 @@
 	i = PyThread_acquire_lock(self->lock_lock, i);
 	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
 
-	if (args == NULL) {
-		Py_INCREF(Py_None);
-		return Py_None;
-	}
-	else
-		return PyBool_FromLong((long)i);
+	return PyBool_FromLong((long)i);
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(acquire_doc,