Lock.acquire(False) does?

locking, python

Solution

By default, lock.acquire will block execution of the thread until the lock is released by a different thread. If you pass `block=False` to the function (as in your example), the call will not block, and will return immediately. Its return value specifies whether or not your thread has actually acquired the lock.

Problem

I have a piece of code ``` locked = lock.acquire(False) if locked: break ``` according to python doc: lock.aquire(False):- When invoked with the blocking argument set to False, do not block. If a call with blocking set to True would block, return False immediately; otherwise, set the lock to locked and return True. I quite understand what they said but can somebody simplify this and please explain me in relation to the above code.

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