[Python-Dev] The endless GIL debate: why not remove thread support instead?

Thomas Heller theller at ctypes.org
Fri Dec 12 18:32:07 CET 2008


Christian Heimes schrieb:
> Nick Coghlan schrieb:
>> Actually, I believe 3.0 already took a big step towards allowing this by
>> changing the way modules are initialised.
> 
> You are believing correctly. Martin has designed and implemented a
> nicely working API to store extension module data per interpreter state.
>  For now interpreter states are used for sub interpreters only.
> 
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3121/

But the extension modules still have to changed to use this mechanism, right?
-- 
Thanks,
Thomas



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