Function RLock

Lib/threading.py:126–137

Factory function that returns a new reentrant lock. A reentrant lock must be released by the thread that acquired it. Once a thread has acquired a reentrant lock, the same thread may acquire it again without blocking; the thread must release it once for each time it has acquired it.

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Lock = _LockType

def RLock():
    """Factory function that returns a new reentrant lock.

    A reentrant lock must be released by the thread that acquired it. Once a
    thread has acquired a reentrant lock, the same thread may acquire it again
    without blocking; the thread must release it once for each time it has
    acquired it.

    """
    if _CRLock is None:
        return _PyRLock()
    return _CRLock()

class _RLock:
    """This class implements reentrant lock objects.