I know this has been seen before but it is not making too much sense (after reading many posts). It all appears to work fine but then dies after about 40 invocations.
My app has Python embedded, it is embedded as part of a dll which initializes python and finalizes on load and unload (see below). When a script needs to be run, I create a new thread, let the script complete and close the thread. The thread contains the following type arrangement: PythonThread() { hScriptFile = OpenScriptFile(m_szActiveScript); PyEval_AcquireLock(); pInterpreter = Py_NewInterpreter(); Py_SetProgramName(szModuleFileName); PyRun_SimpleFile(hScriptFile,m_szActiveScript); PyErr_Clear(); Py_EndInterpreter(pInterpreter); PyEval_ReleaseLock(); } This appears to work fine accept that after around 30-40 invocations I always get the "Invalid thread state for this thread". ie the app and dll stay loaded and I click my "run" button manually about 40 times. In this test it is a simple "hello world" type script. The size of the script does not appear to matter. The dll is coded something like this: DllLoad() { Py_Initialize(); PyEval_InitThreads(); m_mainThreadState = PyThreadState_Get(); PyEval_ReleaseLock(); } DllUnload() (not called as part of this test) { PyEval_AcquireLock(); PyThreadState_Swap(m_mainThreadState); Py_Finalize(); } The app has been designed to allow a second interpreter to run independently (thus the need for multiple thread support) and this also appears to work fine, but for this test only this one thread was used. I have a compiled version of 2.4.2. Any ideas would be appreciated. Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list