On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 4:34 AM Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: > As a data point, in PyArrow, we have a bunch of C++ code that interacts > with Python but doesn't belong in a particular Python module. That C++ > code can of course have global state, including perhaps Python objects.
Thanks for that example! > What might be nice would be a C API to allow creating interpreter-local > opaque structs, for example: > > void* Py_GetInterpreterLocal(const char* unique_name); > void* Py_SetInterpreterLocal(const char* unique_name, > void* ptr, void(*)() destructor); That's interesting. I can imagine that as just a step beyond the module state API, with the module being implicit. Do you think this would be an improvement over using module state? (I'm genuinely curious.) -eric _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KB7ET6XXJFTJDBHL7ABEPSGTD3M2RNAW/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/