New submission from ulrich.stern :
The first sentence of the documentation for Lock Objects
(https://docs.python.org/2/library/threading.html#lock-objects) seems
incorrect. It currently states "A primitive lock is a synchronization
primitive that is not owned by a particular thread
ulrich.stern added the comment:
I still think the documentation should be changed, and an improved version
would look more like your comment than what it looks now. I assume to most
people "owning" means exclusively holding the lock, and a particular thread can
do this for Lo