bpo-33479: Remove unqualified tkinter threadsafe claim. (GH-6990)

It has not been true for several years and likely never was.
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@ -19,8 +19,7 @@ The :mod:`tkinter` package is a thin object-oriented layer on top of Tcl/Tk. To
use :mod:`tkinter`, you don't need to write Tcl code, but you will need to
consult the Tk documentation, and occasionally the Tcl documentation.
:mod:`tkinter` is a set of wrappers that implement the Tk widgets as Python
classes. In addition, the internal module :mod:`_tkinter` provides a threadsafe
mechanism which allows Python and Tcl to interact.
classes.
:mod:`tkinter`'s chief virtues are that it is fast, and that it usually comes
bundled with Python. Although its standard documentation is weak, good

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Remove the unqualified claim that tkinter is threadsafe. It has not been
true for several years and likely never was. An explanation of what is true
may be added later, after more discussion, and possibly after patching
_tkinter.c,