[Zope-dev] Re: Deciphering Zope Comments

[Christian Zagrodnick]

On 2008-06-04 20:28:07 +0200, "Dieter Maurer" <dieter at handshake.de> said:

> Shane Hathaway wrote at 2008-6-4 00:01 -0600:
>> 
>> That led me to the zope.thread module, which is apparently deprecated
>> already, yet zope.app.component still depends on it.  Is that an
>> hysterical accident?
> 
> As I have read, thread local variables have been invented and
> implemented in Zope 3 land and donated to Python.
> 
> Now, that it is in Python, the original Zope implementation
> can go away. Maybe, that is the purpose of the "zope.thread" module?

Actually zope.thread does nothing but importhing the python 
implementation. The module is there for backward compatibility.

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