Delivering data to python from a c-thread

[Steve Holden]

Svein Seldal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a C-application that calls a Python function main(). This 
> function will loop forever and not return until the entire application 
> is about to terminate.
> 
> In a parallel C-thread, some data must be regularly delivered to the 
> running python application. My initial plan was to call a py function 
> deliver() from this thread, however I constantly run into troubles. I 
> keep getting a "Fatal Python error: ceval: tstate mix-up" error from 
> python, even when I handle the GIL with PyGILState_Ensure().
> 
> I fail to use PyEval_AcquireLock() prior to python call either, as the 
> main app would then constantly keep this lock when its running 
> permanently in python.
> 
> Basically I would the thread to stop the execution of the main py app, 
> call the message function deliver(). When the function returns from 
> python, resume the execution of the main pyapp.
> 

Could you have the Python code create a second Python thread and have it 
call back into the C code to collect any waiting data?

regards
  Steve
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