[Python-Dev] Safe to change a thread's interpreter? (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Aug 2 16:59:19 CEST 2004

At 09:34 AM 8/2/04 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

Yes, I saw that as a documented limitation. Are there undocumented limitations as well? Might be. However, there is one more documented the limitation: The PEP 311 extensions only work for a single interpreter state, as the PEP explains.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting it, but the "Design and Implementation" section sounds like the only issue would be that any automatically-allocated thread state would point to the primary interpreter.

For my intended use, that's not actually a problem, since import operations would have to switch the interpreter to the "correct" one, anyway.

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