Svein Seldal wrote: > Hi, > > I have a C-application that calls a Python function main(). This > function will loop forever and not return until the entire application > is about to terminate. > > In a parallel C-thread, some data must be regularly delivered to the > running python application. My initial plan was to call a py function > deliver() from this thread, however I constantly run into troubles. I > keep getting a "Fatal Python error: ceval: tstate mix-up" error from > python, even when I handle the GIL with PyGILState_Ensure(). > > I fail to use PyEval_AcquireLock() prior to python call either, as the > main app would then constantly keep this lock when its running > permanently in python. > > Basically I would the thread to stop the execution of the main py app, > call the message function deliver(). When the function returns from > python, resume the execution of the main pyapp. >
Could you have the Python code create a second Python thread and have it call back into the C code to collect any waiting data? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
