With the current CPython, it's very hard to mix Python and C in a multithreading application (with C-threads, not Python-threads). In fact I never really succeeded in that task because of that GIL ! I have a multi-thread application but every bit of Python code must be run into a Python thread. To be more precise, I wanted to be able to call Python code in response to some GUI events, and I didn't want to instanciate a new interpreter for I wanted to be able to access the environment of my main Python interpreter.
I don't understand. This is what PyGILState_Ensure and PyGILState_Release are for - so C code can leave the GIL unlocked by default, and only grab it when they want to call into the C/Python API.
Regards, Nick.
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