threading.RLock not subclassible?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <uk874zl4x.fsf at ctwd0143.fitlinxx.com>,
David Bolen  <db3l at fitlinxx.com> wrote:
>"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> writes:
>>
>> BTW, an acquire with a timeout is a cool idea!  Feel encouraged to
>> submit a patch to add such a thing directly to threading.py:
>
>If anyone does think along these lines I'd suggest investigating adding
>a timeout to the code per-platform thread code as opposed to something
>at a high level in threading.py.

Given how little of Python is currently platform-specific, what kinds of
arguments can you marshal in favor of this?
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