[Python-Dev] Problem with Py_NewInterpreter

[Guido van Rossum]

> Don't know why it got posted where it did (in the mysql-python forum on SF),
> but some guy posted a question/problem about executing Py_NewInterpreter
> twice.  I have no experience with this sort of stuff, so I figured I'd
> forward it along to the people with the smarts in this area:
> 
>     http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=249171
> 
> (Need I say, "don't respond to me"? ;-)

I've posted a quick pointer to Demo/pysvr which shows how to use
Py_NewInterpreter().

It is possible that mysql contains global state that can't be shared
between interpreters; mysql may have to be changed to fix that.  But I
don't know.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)