From: Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:43:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Explain a minor mystery.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~4467
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=af7fde7f34c6da89f4f040ffe05dcde2568cc930;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Explain a minor mystery.
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diff --git a/Lib/threading.py b/Lib/threading.py
index 0af193b8fa67..e2ce9fe6576f 100644
--- a/Lib/threading.py
+++ b/Lib/threading.py
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ class _Condition(_Verbose):
         self.__lock.acquire()           # Ignore saved state
 
     def _is_owned(self):
+        # This method is called only if __lock doesn't have _is_owned().
         if self.__lock.acquire(0):
             self.__lock.release()
             return False