From: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:37:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a(nother) warning about mixing Py_NewInterpreter and the
X-Git-Tag: v2.5a0~1672
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fb662972e001aa051e5085862cf5eac323e1756f;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add a(nother) warning about mixing Py_NewInterpreter and the
PyGILState_* functions.
---

diff --git a/Doc/api/init.tex b/Doc/api/init.tex
index 940aab9d0857..51b925f5bdd8 100644
--- a/Doc/api/init.tex
+++ b/Doc/api/init.tex
@@ -131,6 +131,12 @@
   objects may affect the wrong (sub-)interpreter's dictionary of
   loaded modules.  (XXX This is a hard-to-fix bug that will be
   addressed in a future release.)
+
+  Also note that the use of this functionality is incompatible with
+  extension modules such as PyObjC and ctypes that use the
+  \cfunction{PyGILState_*} APIs (and this is inherent in the way the
+  \cfunction{PyGILState_*} functions work).  Simple things may work,
+  but confusing behavior will always be near.
 \end{cfuncdesc}
 
 \begin{cfuncdesc}{void}{Py_EndInterpreter}{PyThreadState *tstate}