Check from C that Interpreter is running

[Michael Hudson]

Florian Schulze <florian.proff.schulze at gmx.net> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> I want to check from C that the Python Interpreter is still running
> and it's save to call things like PySys_GetObject, PyFile_WriteString
> etc. I need this in a C function which might be called during shutdown
> in a program embedding Python. Currently I get this error:
> 
> Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread
> Abort!

Py_IsInitialized?

Cheers,
mwh

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