March 17, 2020
7 p.m.
On 17Mar2020 1803, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 3:50 AM Mark Shannon <mark@hotpy.org> wrote:
The accessibility of a thread-local variable is a strict superset of that of a function-local variable.
Therefore storing the thread state in a thread-local variable is at least as capable as passing thread-state as a parameter.
And by that logic, globals are even more capable. I don't understand your point. Isn't the purpose of the tstate parameters to avoid the problem of being unable to have multiple tstates within the same OS thread? I think I've missed something here.
You haven't. Separating the Python thread from the "physical" thread is indeed the point. Cheers, Steve