[Python-checkins] bpo-31370: Remove references to threadless builds (#8805)

[Brian Curtin]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/eef059657d6b10babdb4831e1148d60cc644ee9a
commit: eef059657d6b10babdb4831e1148d60cc644ee9a
branch: master
author: Zackery Spytz <zspytz at gmail.com>
committer: Brian Curtin <brian at python.org>
date: 2018-09-29T10:07:11-06:00
summary:

bpo-31370: Remove references to threadless builds (#8805)

Support for threadless builds was removed in a6a4dc81.

files:
M Doc/c-api/init.rst
M Doc/library/queue.rst
M Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
M Python/ceval.c

diff --git a/Doc/c-api/init.rst b/Doc/c-api/init.rst
index 694b4669eea8..e51a2555f6ad 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/init.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/init.rst
@@ -842,18 +842,18 @@ code, or when embedding the Python interpreter:
 
 .. c:function:: PyThreadState* PyEval_SaveThread()
 
-   Release the global interpreter lock (if it has been created and thread
-   support is enabled) and reset the thread state to *NULL*, returning the
-   previous thread state (which is not *NULL*).  If the lock has been created,
-   the current thread must have acquired it.
+   Release the global interpreter lock (if it has been created) and reset the
+   thread state to *NULL*, returning the previous thread state (which is not
+   *NULL*).  If the lock has been created, the current thread must have
+   acquired it.
 
 
 .. c:function:: void PyEval_RestoreThread(PyThreadState *tstate)
 
-   Acquire the global interpreter lock (if it has been created and thread
-   support is enabled) and set the thread state to *tstate*, which must not be
-   *NULL*.  If the lock has been created, the current thread must not have
-   acquired it, otherwise deadlock ensues.
+   Acquire the global interpreter lock (if it has been created) and set the
+   thread state to *tstate*, which must not be *NULL*.  If the lock has been
+   created, the current thread must not have acquired it, otherwise deadlock
+   ensues.
 
 
 .. c:function:: PyThreadState* PyThreadState_Get()
diff --git a/Doc/library/queue.rst b/Doc/library/queue.rst
index 1520faa9b83f..6106d0cd381f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/queue.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/queue.rst
@@ -11,9 +11,7 @@
 The :mod:`queue` module implements multi-producer, multi-consumer queues.
 It is especially useful in threaded programming when information must be
 exchanged safely between multiple threads.  The :class:`Queue` class in this
-module implements all the required locking semantics.  It depends on the
-availability of thread support in Python; see the :mod:`threading`
-module.
+module implements all the required locking semantics.
 
 The module implements three types of queue, which differ only in the order in
 which the entries are retrieved.  In a :abbr:`FIFO (first-in, first-out)`
diff --git a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
index bb9eb240a8a2..d728091bab1b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -30,9 +30,6 @@
 _multiprocessing = test.support.import_module('_multiprocessing')
 # Skip tests if sem_open implementation is broken.
 test.support.import_module('multiprocessing.synchronize')
-# import threading after _multiprocessing to raise a more relevant error
-# message: "No module named _multiprocessing". _multiprocessing is not compiled
-# without thread support.
 import threading
 
 import multiprocessing.connection
diff --git a/Python/ceval.c b/Python/ceval.c
index d0f9915b4f0a..1a8c9e236493 100644
--- a/Python/ceval.c
+++ b/Python/ceval.c
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ PyEval_ReInitThreads(void)
 }
 
 /* This function is used to signal that async exceptions are waiting to be
-   raised, therefore it is also useful in non-threaded builds. */
+   raised. */
 
 void
 _PyEval_SignalAsyncExc(void)
@@ -245,10 +245,6 @@ _PyEval_SignalAsyncExc(void)
     SIGNAL_ASYNC_EXC();
 }
 
-/* Functions save_thread and restore_thread are always defined so
-   dynamically loaded modules needn't be compiled separately for use
-   with and without threads: */
-
 PyThreadState *
 PyEval_SaveThread(void)
 {