Endless GIL and thread confusion

[Aahz]

In article <1193060931.105181.81270 at z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
 <kyosohma at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I use the Threading module whenever I need to use threads. It works
>quite nicely and I have yet to have any problems with it, except for a
>little goofiness with WMI that was explained to me long ago. You might
>check that module out.
>
>The wiki for wxPython actually has a good tutorial on threads:
>
>http://wiki.wxpython.org/LongRunningTasks
>
>And here's an article on usurping the GIL:
>
>http://www.pyzine.com/Issue001/Section_Articles/article_ThreadingGlobalInterpreter.html

Unfortunately, that's all only relevant to someone writing Python code
(and I'd forgotten about that article!) -- the OP needs advice with C.
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