[Python-Dev] usefulness of Python version of threading.RLock

[Charles-François Natali]

Thanks for those precisions, but I must admit it doesn't help me much...
Can we drop it? A yes/no answer will do it ;-)

> I'm pretty sure the Python version of RLock is in use in several alternative
> implementations that provide an alternative _thread.lock. I think gevent
> would fall into this camp, as well as a personal project of mine in a
> similar vein that operates on python3.

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand. Do those projects use _PyRLock directly?
If yes, then aliasing it to _CRLock should do the trick, no?