[issue11140] threading.Lock().release() raises _thread.error, not RuntimeError

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

I would rather make _thread.error an alias of RuntimeError. That way, we can reconcile the docs and the code without breaking compatibility.
Also, importing _thread won't be necessary to catch errors raised in threading objects.

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nosy: +gregory.p.smith, pitrou
stage:  -> needs patch
title: Error in the documentation of threading.Lock().release() -> threading.Lock().release() raises _thread.error, not RuntimeError
type:  -> behavior
versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 2.6, Python 2.7

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