[docs] [issue6269] threading documentation makes no mention of the GIL

Ray.Allen report at bugs.python.org
Tue Oct 26 12:06:19 CEST 2010


Ray.Allen <ysj.ray at gmail.com> added the comment:

Agree with Jesse, the description in the patch is not quite correct. I think detailed description of the GIL has been given in C API documentation: http://docs.python.org/c-api/init.html#thread-state-and-the-global-interpreter-lock. How about just give this link in threading module documentation?

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