[Python-checkins] r72037 - python/trunk/Doc/c-api/init.rst

[georg.brandl]

Author: georg.brandl
Date: Mon Apr 27 19:09:53 2009
New Revision: 72037

Log:
#5840: dont claim we dont support TLS.

Modified:
   python/trunk/Doc/c-api/init.rst

Modified: python/trunk/Doc/c-api/init.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/c-api/init.rst	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/c-api/init.rst	Mon Apr 27 19:09:53 2009
@@ -419,10 +419,9 @@
 The Python interpreter needs to keep some bookkeeping information separate per
 thread --- for this it uses a data structure called :ctype:`PyThreadState`.
 There's one global variable, however: the pointer to the current
-:ctype:`PyThreadState` structure.  While most thread packages have a way to
-store "per-thread global data," Python's internal platform independent thread
-abstraction doesn't support this yet.  Therefore, the current thread state must
-be manipulated explicitly.
+:ctype:`PyThreadState` structure.  Before the addition of :dfn:`thread-local
+storage` (:dfn:`TLS`) the current thread state had to be manipulated
+explicitly.
 
 This is easy enough in most cases.  Most code manipulating the global
 interpreter lock has the following simple structure::