[Python-Dev] Extension modules, Threading, and the GIL

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Mark Hammond wrote:
> Yes, good catch.  A PyInterpreterState must be known, and as you stated
> previously, it is trivial to get one of these and stash it away globally.
> The PyThreadState is the problem child.

Then of course you know more than Tim would grant you: you do have an 
interpreter state, and hence you can infer that Python has been 
initialized. So I infer that your requirements are different from Tim's.

Regards,
Martin