PyImport_ImportModule deadlocks

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:22:50 -0300, jms at bughunter.ca  
<justin.seitz at gmail.com> escribi�:

> I have an embedded Python shell and everything works fine, however, in
> my stdout catcher (in C to grab tracebacks) for some reason when I do
> a :
>
> PyImport_ImportModule( "sys" )
>
> It deadlocks the process, is there a need for me to acquire locks
> inside of my stdout catching function before calling that import?

The deadlock might be due to the import lock. But instead of analyzing  
that issue: why do you want to import sys? The sys module is always  
available. To access its attributes, use PySys_GetObject &Co.

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Gabriel Genellina