[Python-Dev] Re: [Stackless] comments on PEP 219

[Greg Ewing]

Christian Tismer <tismer@tismer.com>:

> You can *create* a thread using a callback.

Okay, that's not so bad. (An earlier message seemed to
be saying that you couldn't even do that.)

But what about GUIs such as Tkinter which have a
main loop in C that keeps control for the life of
the program? You'll never get back to the base-level
interpreter, not even between callbacks, so how do 
the uthreads get scheduled?

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