Vaclav Havlik schrieb: > Hello. Could you advise me about this, please? > I write a multi-thread program using the 'threading' module. Moreover, I use > C++ extension. Two threads work inside this C++ extension in such way that > one thread waits for the other to do something. However it seems that ALL > python is stopped by the first thread stopping. And not that the one thread > stops and the other runs to wake the former up, as it is intended in the C++ > extension. > Is it the problem, that I am not using Python's synchronization means, but > C++'s ? > Thank you very much. V.
I guess the problem lies in not releasing the GIL (GlobalInterpreterLock) inside your C++-Extension. That makes the interpreter lock. Google for that, you'll find plenty of stuff on the GIL. Regards, DIez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list