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bpo-33479: Remove unqualified tkinter threadsafe claim. (GH-6990)
It has not been true for several years and likely never was.
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Doc/library/tk.rst

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use :mod:`tkinter`, you don't need to write Tcl code, but you will need to
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consult the Tk documentation, and occasionally the Tcl documentation.
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:mod:`tkinter` is a set of wrappers that implement the Tk widgets as Python
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classes. In addition, the internal module :mod:`_tkinter` provides a threadsafe
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mechanism which allows Python and Tcl to interact.
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classes.
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:mod:`tkinter`'s chief virtues are that it is fast, and that it usually comes
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bundled with Python. Although its standard documentation is weak, good
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Remove the unqualified claim that tkinter is threadsafe. It has not been
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true for several years and likely never was. An explanation of what is true
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may be added later, after more discussion, and possibly after patching
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_tkinter.c,

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