[Python-checkins] r88016 - python/branches/py3k/Doc/c-api/init.rst

antoine.pitrou python-checkins at python.org
Sat Jan 15 13:21:53 CET 2011


Author: antoine.pitrou
Date: Sat Jan 15 13:21:53 2011
New Revision: 88016

Log:
Add mention of how to switch interpreters



Modified:
   python/branches/py3k/Doc/c-api/init.rst

Modified: python/branches/py3k/Doc/c-api/init.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/py3k/Doc/c-api/init.rst	(original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Doc/c-api/init.rst	Sat Jan 15 13:21:53 2011
@@ -782,7 +782,9 @@
 While in most uses, you will only embed a single Python interpreter, there
 are cases where you need to create several independent interpreters in the
 same process and perhaps even in the same thread.  Sub-interpreters allow
-you to do that.
+you to do that.  You can switch between sub-interpreters using the
+:c:func:`PyThreadState_Swap` function.  You can create and destroy them
+using the following functions:
 
 
 .. c:function:: PyThreadState* Py_NewInterpreter()


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