Then of course you know more than Tim would grant you: you do have an interpreter state, and hence you can infer that Python has been initialized. So I infer that your requirements are different from Tim's.
Sheesh - lucky this is mildly entertaining <wink>. You are free to infer what you like, but I believe it is clear and would prefer to see a single other person with a problem rather than continue pointless semantic games.
In this instance, it looks to me like Martin makes a good point. If I'm missing something, I'd appreciate an explanation.
There was no requirement that identical code be used in all cases. Checking if Python is initialized is currently trivial, and requires no special inference skills. It is clear that some consideration will need to be given to the PyInterpreterState used for all this, but that is certainly tractable - every single person who has spoken up with this requirement to date has indicated that their application does not need multiple interpreter states - so explicitly ignoring that case seems fine. Mark.