Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> A couple questions: what does "won't break" mean 

That means that its internal invariants always survive in a multi-threaded 
environment.

> that it won't throw an exception of a type that it 
> wouldn't normally throw in a single-threaded environment? 

Unless that exception is being raised to indicate that a resource is in  use 
(much that same as a database notifying you that it can't make a change because 
the DB is currently locked).

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