Problems with PyGILState_Ensure () and PyGILState_Release ()

[Mathias Mamsch]

Hi Greg, thanks for your answer ...

I really need help with this, because till now I found no solution to my
problem ... I always get FatalErrors, Deadslocks, or protection faults ...

I created some example code for what I want to accomplish. I have a single
thread which calls some C-Function which should call back into python.

To your questions: no nowhere in *my* code ReleaseThread is called and I
dont write to gstate either ...
I dont understand the thread handling of python completely... Any ideas
where - besides the Python docs - I can find some information about that  ?

Thanks Mathias Mamsch

here is some example code which produces my problem.
hope it helps to understand it ...

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#include "python.h"
#include <windows.h>

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

#define GETLOCK     PyGILState_STATE gstate; \
                    gstate = PyGILState_Ensure ();

#define RELEASELOCK PyGILState_Release (gstate);

static DWORD Tid;

static int CHandleFunction ()
{
    GETLOCK
    // here will I callback to python ...
    cout << "Hello" << endl;
    RELEASELOCK

    return 0;
}

static PyMethodDef SpamMethods[] = {
    {NULL, NULL, 0, NULL}        /* Sentinel */
};

// some C Thread which calls the Handler ...
DWORD __stdcall WCThread (LPVOID lpThreadParameter)
{
        while (1)
        {
                CHandleFunction();
                Sleep(500);
        }
}

PyMODINIT_FUNC initkdll(void)
{
    Py_InitModule("kdll", SpamMethods);
    // Create some C++ Thread for testing purposes
    CreateThread(NULL,0,WCThread,NULL,0,&Tid);
}