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Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 06:25:45 -0700
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 08/08/2014 04:51 AM, cool-RR wrote:
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> If I want to acquire a `threading.Lock` using the context manager protocol,
>  is it possible to specify the `blocking` and `timeout` arguments that
>  `acquire` would usually take?

Not that I know of, but why would you want to?  There's no built-in 'if' with a 'with' block -- how would your code know 
whether it ran or not?

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~Ethan~