[Pyrex] Pyrex and the GIL

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Sep 8 06:11:49 CEST 2005


Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> 
> I'd call this acquire_gil, or perhaps acquires_gil.

But that's not what it means. The function doesn't
necessarily acquire the GIL itself.

Maybe there's a better name for it, but it seems
to me it really is the same invariant in both
cases.

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