Python Interpreter Reentrancy?

Courageous jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Sun Apr 22 12:25:56 EDT 2001


>I'm not quite sure what you're asking for.  It's certainly the case that
>multiple threads in a C application can call Python code, but each time
>you call into Python, you need to acquire the GIL first (along with first
>making sure that you've done all the proper initialization). 

I'm asking for a reentrant Python interpreter -- one in which a global
interpreter lock isn't necessary. Clearly that's not around yet.

C//




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