Issue #22006: Remove outdated _thread caveat. Thanks Dan O'Reilly for the report.

e004c6ca · Mark Dickinson · 0069eac0 · e004c6ca
Commit e004c6ca authored Jul 19, 2014 by Mark Dickinson
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@@ -176,10 +176,6 @@ In addition to these methods, lock objects can also be used via the
 * Calling :func:`sys.exit` or raising the :exc:`SystemExit` exception is
  equivalent to calling :func:`_thread.exit`.

-* Not all built-in functions that may block waiting for I/O allow other threads
-  to run.  (The most popular ones (:func:`time.sleep`, :meth:`io.FileIO.read`,
-  :func:`select.select`) work as expected.)
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 * It is not possible to interrupt the :meth:`acquire` method on a lock --- the
  :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt` exception will happen after the lock has been acquired.