Globals, Locals Dictionaries + Callbacks Question

[Steve Holden]

Faisal Alquaddoomi wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
> 
>>Faisal Alquaddoomi wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I'm having a bit of trouble isolating my scripts from each other in my 
>>>embedded Python interpreter, so that their global namespaces don't get 
>>>all entangled. 
>>
>>
>>[tales of woe ...]
>>
>>Would it help to use PyNewInterpreter to create subinterpreters for each 
>>of the different scripts?
>>
>>regards
>> Steve
> 
> 
> That sounds like a reasonable suggestion, but would it be inefficient to 
> spawn a whole new interpreter for each script, where what I really want 
> to do is just change the dictionaries used for globals and locals? I'll 
> try that out for now, but I'm still hoping there's some way to change 
> those dictionaries without having to do anything excessive.
> 
I guess only benchmarking can answer that question. However, given that 
the code will be common to all instances you may find that it isn't too 
resource-intensive. I agree it does seem much more heavyweight than 
replacing execution context.

Good luck!

regards
  Steve
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