[docs] threading.Lock.release Documentation
W. Austin Roberts
austin.roberts at propylon.com
Wed Apr 4 17:51:25 CEST 2012
I recently ran into a situation where I could not be certain that a lock
was currently in the acquired state. I checked the documentation to
determine what would happen if I attempted to release a lock that was
already released, and saw an ominous warning of "Do not call this method
when the lock is unlocked."
Needing to know what would happen, I cautiously tested it out. I half
expected my computer to explode as I released a lock for the second
time, but was pleased to see it raise a 'thread.error' exception which
could be caught and handled.
I generally expect the documentation to tell me what will happen if I do
something invalid. In this case the documentation should indicate that a
thread.error will be raised if you release an unlocked lock.
Thanks for your time.
--
Austin Roberts
Technical Team Lead
Propylon, Inc.
http://www.propylon.com
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