changeset 67641:525aeaa3d53f

Mention deprecation of PyEval_{Acquire,Release}Lock().
author Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
date Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:45:17 +0000
parents 691bc2c2fc22
children faec1b5a96db
files Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst	Sun Jan 16 18:41:36 2011 +0000
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst	Sun Jan 16 18:45:17 2011 +0000
@@ -1916,3 +1916,8 @@
   occurs, rather than a generic :exc:`~ssl.SSLError`.
 
   (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou, :issue:`10272`.)
+
+* The misleading functions :c:func:`PyEval_AcquireLock()` and
+  :c:func:`PyEval_ReleaseLock()` have been officially deprecated.  The
+  thread-state aware APIs (such as :c:func:`PyEval_SaveThread()`
+  and :c:func:`PyEval_RestoreThread()`) should be used instead.