On May 4, 2:13 pm, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, what I said was not wholly untrue: code in C extensions is > protected by the GIL and thus not interruptable, unless it either > releases the GIL, or calls back into Python code (which is apparently > what numpy scalars do).
And, because I know that someone will be nitpicky: yes, technically it is interruptable at that point, but other Python threads trying to execute the same piece of code are not allowed to run. > print 'final count:', count This should be "int(count)". Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
