On Apr 11, 9:24 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This question was posed to me today. Given a C/C++ program we can clearly > embed a Python interpreter in it. Is it possible to fire up multiple > interpreters in multiple threads? For example: > > C++ main > thread 1 > Py_Initialize() > thread 2 > Py_Initialize() > > Do I wind up with two completely independent interpreters, one per thread? > I'm thinking this doesn't work (there are bits which aren't thread-safe and > are only protected by the GIL), but wanted to double-check to be sure. > > Thanks, > > Skip
AFAIK it is only `sort of' possible. But not like that. See the API documentation on Py_NewInterpreter http://www.python.org/doc/api/initialization.html#l2h-825 As you will see from the documentation it creates an interpreter that isn't 100% separate. It may work for your application though. Also, I don't think using the new interpreter is as simple as just instantiating the new interpreter in a separate thread. But there is much relevant information on the page that I linked to. Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
