[Pyrex] Pyrex and the GIL

[Greg Ewing]

Bob Ippolito wrote:

>> That's not right either, because when calling
>> out to such a function you need to ensure that
>> the GIL is *not* held.

> Not really, the PyGILState_Ensure() API doesn't care.

The uses I have in mind for declaring an external
function nogil are where the function does something
that you want done with the GIL released, such as
reading from a file. The function itself probably
knows nothing about Python.

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