Jan. 8, 2003
5:49 a.m.
Mark Hammond wrote:
1) Allow "arbitrary" threads (that is, threads never before seen by Python) to acquire the resources necessary to call the Python C API.
This is possible today, all you need is a pointer to an interpreter state. If you have that, you can use PyThreadState_New,
But what if in some cases, this callback is as a result of Python code on the same thread - ie, there already exists a Python thread-state higher up the stack? Mark.