Re: Quick question about threads and interpreters.

2011-07-31 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Ira Gray wrote: > I come along, write a .DLL and throw it into the program. My .dll has its > own thread (right?), Not unless you actually create one. A DLL is simply a puddle of code; the application calls your code, you do whatever you do, you return. At no time

Quick question about threads and interpreters.

2011-07-31 Thread Ira Gray
Lets say I have a program that is running a python interpreter in the main thread. I come along, write a .DLL and throw it into the program. My .dll has its own thread (right?), separate from the main thread, and then makes a pyrun_simplestring call to the pythonxx.dll. The pyrun_simplestring call