[New-bugs-announce] [issue24020] threading.local() must be run at module level (doc improvement)

[Ethan Furman]

New submission from Ethan Furman:

In order to work correctly, threading.local() must be run in global scope, yet that tidbit is missing from both the docs and the _threading_local.py file.

Something like:

.. note::
   threading.local() must be run at global scope to function properly.

That would have saved me hours of time.  Thank goodness for SO!  ;)

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assignee: docs at python
messages: 241713
nosy: docs at python, ethan.furman
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: threading.local() must be run at module level (doc improvement)
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5

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