C-extension not threadable?

Brian Quinlan brian at sweetapp.com
Tue Apr 16 14:40:26 EDT 2002


Marcus wrote:
> The C-extension does what it is supposed to do, the callback function
> works, but the C-function does not start as a parallel thread but is
> freezing my UI. Anything basic I miss here ?

To allow meaningful threading, C extensions must explicitly release the
global interpreter lock. What extension is it?

Cheers,
Brian






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