Safe to call Py_Initialize() frequently?

[roschler]

On Mar 20, 7:27 pm, Mark Hammond <skippy.hamm... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21/03/2009 4:20 AM, roschler wrote:
>
> Calling Py_Initialize() multiple times has no effect.  Calling
> Py_Initialize and Py_Finalize multiple times does leak (Python 3 has
> mechanisms so this need to always be true in the future, but it is true
> now for non-trivial apps.
>
> > If it is not a safe approach, is there another way to get what I want?
>
> Start a new process each time?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark

Hello Mark,

Thank you for your reply.  I didn't know that Py_Initialize worked
like that.

How about using Py_NewInterpreter() and Py_EndInterpreter() with each
job?  Any value in that approach?  If not, is there at least a
reliable way to get a list of all active threads and terminate them so
before starting the next job?  Starting a new process each time seems
a bit heavy handed.

Robert.