global threading.Lock not locking correctly?

[Afanasiy]

On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 14:22:01 -0500, Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net>
wrote:

>[Afanasiy]
>> I am replying to this just to answer your question. My question was
>> already answered. However, I am now curious what I should have said
>> instead of "P.S. this is simplified example code". I am finding it
>> difficult to communicate here and I consider my English excellent.
>
>Grant explained it well.  Your "P.S. this is simplified example code" added
>no information, so it's natural to question why you wrote it.  The usual
>answer to that is (as Grant explained) that it's not actually code you've
>run.

The dictionary entry for 'example' seems to make sense for this purpose.
Is there another adjective, short of "but it reproduces the symptoms" ?