I gave away the “ty” project name on pypi to Astral a week or so ago. I wanted to use it for a joke a few years ago but this is a much better use for a two letter project name. They agreed to make a donation to the PSF to demonstrate their gratefulness.
This style of mutex will also power PyMutex in Python 3.13. I have real-world benchmarks showing how much faster PyMutex is than the old PyThread_type_lock that was available before 3.13.
Fun thing to keep in mind when traveling in mainland China: maps for use outside China are shifted by a few hundred meters, presumably in a lame attempt to confuse an invading army.