CAPI and thread safety

[Lane Brooks]

Thanks for the pointer.  I'll check it out.  That is what  I was looking 
for.

Lane

Benjamin wrote:
> On Jun 27, 4:33 pm, Lane Brooks <l... at ubixum.com> wrote:
>   
>> I am writing an extension module that needs to release the global
>> interpreter lock during some blocking I/O calls, but I need a mutex in
>> the C code to make some of the shared data in the extension module are
>> kept thread safe.  Can anyone recommend a portable way to do this?  I
>> could use a pthread mutex, but I do not think that is portable.
>>
>> Are any of the python mutexes or locks exposed through the C API?  I
>> could not find anything.
>>     
>
> Look at Include/pythread.h. You can use PyThread_allocate_lock to get
> the threading abstractions that Python uses.
>
>   
>> Thanks,
>> Lane
>>     
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