Thread State and the Global Interpreter Lock

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Fri Jun 6 22:37:59 EDT 2003


Afanasiy wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:40:25 -0500, Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> >    >> Are there plans to make the Python interpreter "fully thread safe" in
> >    >> a future version?
> >
> >In what way is it not "fully thread safe" today?
> 
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/api/threads.html

I suspect Skip meant to elicite from you the answer to this
question:  What problems have *you* encountered as a result of
the "not fully thread-safe" issue you are concerned about?

-Peter




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