[Python-checkins] bpo-31960: Fix asyncio.Future documentation for thread (un)safety. (#4319)

[Antoine Pitrou]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/22b1128559bdeb96907da5840960691bb050d11a
commit: 22b1128559bdeb96907da5840960691bb050d11a
branch: master
author: Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2017-11-07T17:03:28+01:00
summary:

bpo-31960: Fix asyncio.Future documentation for thread (un)safety. (#4319)

files:
M Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
M Lib/asyncio/futures.py

diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
index fbb31b866ae..ff35b0add9d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ Future
      raise an exception when the future isn't done yet.
 
    - Callbacks registered with :meth:`add_done_callback` are always called
-     via the event loop's :meth:`~AbstractEventLoop.call_soon_threadsafe`.
+     via the event loop's :meth:`~AbstractEventLoop.call_soon`.
 
    - This class is not compatible with the :func:`~concurrent.futures.wait` and
      :func:`~concurrent.futures.as_completed` functions in the
diff --git a/Lib/asyncio/futures.py b/Lib/asyncio/futures.py
index 215f72d1910..3dc9c500b33 100644
--- a/Lib/asyncio/futures.py
+++ b/Lib/asyncio/futures.py
@@ -32,11 +32,13 @@ class Future:
 
     Differences:
 
+    - This class is not thread-safe.
+
     - result() and exception() do not take a timeout argument and
       raise an exception when the future isn't done yet.
 
     - Callbacks registered with add_done_callback() are always called
-      via the event loop's call_soon_threadsafe().
+      via the event loop's call_soon().
 
     - This class is not compatible with the wait() and as_completed()
       methods in the concurrent.futures package.