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

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Fri Dec 12 15:50:13 CET 2008


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/

Christian



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