bpo-27618: Clarify that threading.Lock is a factory function (GH-1307)

56ddfd2e · csabella · Mariatta · a5aa72ac · 56ddfd2e
Commit 56ddfd2e authored May 31, 2017 by csabella Committed by Mariatta May 31, 2017
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@@ -371,8 +371,9 @@ All methods are executed atomically.
   lock, subsequent attempts to acquire it block, until it is released; any
   thread may release it.
-   .. versionchanged:: 3.3
+   Note that ``Lock`` is actually a factory function which returns an instance
-      Changed from a factory function to a class.
+   of the most efficient version of the concrete Lock class that is supported
+   by the platform.
   .. method:: acquire(blocking=True, timeout=-1)