https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6d31d085f0fedbbafec68ee821f1c0902ac6233f
commit: 6d31d085f0fedbbafec68ee821f1c0902ac6233f
branch: 3.14
author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]>
committer: gpshead <[email protected]>
date: 2025-11-11T04:56:07Z
summary:

[3.14] gh-140578: Doc: Remove sencence implying that 
concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor does not exist (GH-140689) (#141382)

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

* Doc: Remove sencence implying that concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor does 
not exist

Closes GH-140578

* Add NEWS.d entry for gh-140578

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(cherry picked from commit 46b58e1bb9e1e17d855588935f5a259be960a3a1)

Co-authored-by: Louis <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Louis Paternault <[email protected]>

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2025-10-27-23-06-01.gh-issue-140578.FMBdEn.rst
M Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 85c3abad52a646..0d46a5dfc7466e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -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
@@ -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::
 
diff --git 
a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2025-10-27-23-06-01.gh-issue-140578.FMBdEn.rst 
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2025-10-27-23-06-01.gh-issue-140578.FMBdEn.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..702d38d4d24df6
--- /dev/null
+++ 
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2025-10-27-23-06-01.gh-issue-140578.FMBdEn.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Remove outdated sencence in the documentation for :mod:`multiprocessing`,
+that implied that :class:`concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor` did not
+exist.

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