[C++-sig] Re: boost::python and threads

[Nikolay Mladenov]

David Abrahams wrote:
> 
> I don't believe that call policies can do what he wants yet, since
> there's no provision for state to be carried across the precall() and
> postcall() functions as required by Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS and
> Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS.

Yeah, ok. But this seems to be a bug, since the docs say 
x is obbject of type P - model of CallPolicy:
than 
x.precall()
....
x.postcall()

and x should be able to carry the thread state.
The fact that most call policies are static and cannot chain this type
of calls
should probably be fixed?