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gh-114315: Make threading.Lock a real class, not a factory function (#114479)

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`threading.Lock` is now the underlying class and is constructable rather than the old
factory function. This allows for type annotations to refer to it which had no non-ugly
way to be expressed prior to this.

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Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
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@ -534,9 +534,10 @@ All methods are executed atomically.
lock, subsequent attempts to acquire it block, until it is released; any
thread may release it.
Note that ``Lock`` is actually a factory function which returns an instance
of the most efficient version of the concrete Lock class that is supported
by the platform.
.. versionchanged:: 3.13
``Lock`` is now a class. In earlier Pythons, ``Lock`` was a factory
function which returned an instance of the underlying private lock
type.
.. method:: acquire(blocking=True, timeout=-1)