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gh-140578: Doc: Remove sencence implying that concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor does not exist #140689

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7 changes: 5 additions & 2 deletions Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
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Expand Up @@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ to this, the :mod:`multiprocessing` module allows the programmer to fully
leverage multiple processors on a given machine. It runs on both POSIX and
Windows.

The :mod:`multiprocessing` module also introduces APIs which do not have
analogs in the :mod:`threading` module. A prime example of this is the
The :mod:`multiprocessing` module also introduces the
:class:`~multiprocessing.pool.Pool` object which offers a convenient means of
parallelizing the execution of a function across multiple input values,
distributing the input data across processes (data parallelism). The following
Expand All @@ -44,6 +43,10 @@ will print to standard output ::

[1, 4, 9]

The :mod:`multiprocessing` module also introduces APIs which do not have
analogs in the :mod:`threading` module, like the ability to :meth:`terminate
<Process.terminate>`, :meth:`interrupt <Process.interrupt>` or :meth:`kill
<Process.kill>` a running process.

.. seealso::

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Remove outdated sencence in the documentation for :mod:`multiprocessing`,
that implied that :class:`concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor` did not
exist.
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