[issue27618] docs for threading.Lock claim it's a class (since 3.3), but it's not (and has never been, apparently)

[Guido van Rossum]

New submission from Guido van Rossum:

The docs for threading.Lock say


79534:    .. versionchanged:: 3.3
79534:       Changed from a factory function to a class.

but the implementation in threading.py doesn't define a class named Lock, and in fact it is an alias for _thread.allocate_lock.

Are the docs wrong, or is the source? Or did this get changed back later?

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title: docs for threading.Lock claim it's a class (since 3.3), but it's not (and has never been, apparently)

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