On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:43:33 -0700 > Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > > > This sounds like a very interesting idea to pursue, even if it's late, > > and even if it's experimental, and even if it's possible to cause > > deadlocks (no news there). I propose that we offer a C API in Python > > 3.3 as well as an extension module that offers the proposed decorator. > > The C API could then be used to implement alternative APIs purely as > > extension modules (e.g. would a deadlock-detecting API be possible?). > > We could offer the C API without shipping an extension module ourselves. > I don't think we should provide (and maintain!) a Python API that helps > users put themselves in all kind of nasty situations. There is enough > misunderstanding around the GIL and multithreading already. > +1
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