Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset ff5fb419967f by Georg Brandl in branch '3.3':
Closes #18927: Lock.acquire only accepts -1 or positive values for timeout.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ff5fb419967f
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nosy: +python-dev
resolution: -> fixed
stage: -> committed/rejected
New submission from Tim Peters:
Here from the 3.3.2 docs for threading.Lock:
"""
acquire(blocking=True, timeout=-1)
Acquire a lock, blocking or non-blocking.
...
When invoked with the floating-point timeout argument set to a positive value,
block for at most the number of seconds specified b
