[Python-Dev] Preventing 1.5 extensions crashing under 1.6/2.0 Python

[Thomas Wouters]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 03:58:52PM +1000, Mark Hammond wrote:

> It is now Friday afternoon for me.  Regardless of the outcome of this, the
> patch Fredrik posted recently would still seem reasonable, and not have too
> much impact on performance (ie, after locating and loading a .dll/.so, one
> function call isnt too bad!):

> +       if (!Py_IsInitialized())
> +               Py_FatalError("Interpreter not initialized (version

Wasn't there a problem with this, because the 'Py_FatalError()' would be the
one in the uninitialized library and thus result in the same tstate error ?
Perhaps it needs a separate error message, that avoids the usual Python
cleanup and trickery and just prints the error message and exits ?

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Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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