[Python-Dev] GIL vs thread state
Thomas Heller
theller@python.net
14 Apr 2003 17:35:34 +0200
Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
> Maybe you should have a look at Mark Hammond's PEP 311. It describes
> the problem and proposes a better solution. (I think it requires you
> to always use the existing thread state for the thread, rather than
> making up a temporary thread state as is currently the idiom.)
I have only briefly skimmed the PEP, but I have the impression that it
proposes an new API, which may appear in 2.3 or 2.4.
> Ouch! I don't know what structured exception handling is, but this
> looks like it would be as bad as using setjmp/longjmp to get back to
> right after execute_some_python_code().
Exactly. It basically does a longjmp() instead of crashing the process
with an access violation, for example.
> That code could leak
> arbitrary Python references!!!
I consider access violations programming errors, so leaking references
would be ok. But I want to print a traceback instead of crashing (or at
least before crashing)
> If the docs are lying, they have to be fixed. This is no longer my
> prime area of expertise... :-(
That's why I have been asking. I can submit a bug pointing to this
thread.
Thomas