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List:       pykde
Subject:    Re: [PyKDE] python in realtime requirements
From:       Phil Thompson <phil () riverbankcomputing ! co ! uk>
Date:       2004-08-29 22:08:06
Message-ID: 200408292308.06971.phil () riverbankcomputing ! co ! uk
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On Sunday 29 August 2004 10:21 pm, Patrick Stinson wrote:
> Do calls to the python C API acquire the GIL for each of its public
> methods? If so, that would render python completely incapable of being used
> for multi-threaded realtime applications, where one of the threads is not
> to make *any* blocking calls. Am I right in assuming this?

The Python API *requires* that the GIL is held when an API call is made.

Phil

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