On Apr 9, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Michael Hudson wrote:
"Gregory P. Smith" <greg@electricrain.com> writes:
Under "Limitations and Exclusions" it specifically disowns responsibility for worrying about whether Py_Initialize() and PyEval_InitThreads() have been called:
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This suggests that I should call PyEval_InitThreads() in initreadline(), which seems daft.
fwiw, Modules/_bsddb.c does exactly that.
Interesting. The problem with readline.c doing this is that it gets implicitly imported by the interpreter -- although only for interactive sessions. Maybe that's not that big a deal. I'd still prefer to change the functions (would updating the PEP be in order here? Obviously, I'd update the api documentation).
Is there a good reason to *not* call PyEval_InitThreads when using a threaded Python? Sounds like it would just be easier to implicitly call it during Py_Initialize some day. -bob