[Python-Dev] Threading and callbacks - missing documentation (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
12 Apr 2002 19:10:09 +0200

"Thomas Heller" <thomas.heller@ion-tof.com> writes:

Can't you at least partly combine the advantages of 1 and 2 by using thread local storage for the global variable? I have no idea if there is a portable way to do this...

That would work, but, as you already guess: there is no portable way to do this. If you can accept platform-specific code, this is a good idea.

Regards, Martin