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The documentation states that thread states are supported within a 
single interpreter and not supported across other interpreters 
(specifically for the GIL functions which are just wrapper functions 
around the PyEval_ functions).
So I would have to conclude then that the condition should check to see 
if the swapping thread is within the current interpreter state 
otherwise "fatal error", as such...
The condition: check->interp == newts->interp
should be: check->interp != newts->interp
In otherwords if there is a previous thread state and it's interpreter 
is NOT the same as the one being swapped in then do the fatal error.
Just my opinion. I ran into this problem when using the 
PyThreadState_Swap function directly (low level) to do the thread 
handling within a single interpreter state (Debug mode only).