[issue3589] Misleading names for multiprocessing "convenience" functions

[Jesse Noller]

Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> added the comment:

Reopening, there's a bug that the tests/examples/etc didn't catch (and 
nor did I), after the patch application:

woot:python-trunk jesse$ ./python.exe 
Python 2.6b3+ (trunk:66112:66114M, Sep  1 2008, 13:00:19) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5484)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import _multiprocessing
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/jesse/open_source/subversion/python-
trunk/Lib/multiprocessing/__init__.py", line 148, in <module>
    from multiprocessing.synchronize import (Lock, RLock, Condition, 
Event,
  File "/Users/jesse/open_source/subversion/python-
trunk/Lib/multiprocessing/synchronize.py", line 29, in <module>
    SEM_VALUE_MAX = _multiprocessing.SemLock.SEM_VALUE_MAX
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SemLock'
>>>

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resolution: fixed -> 
status: closed -> open

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