On 2021年12月16日 11:38:28 -0700 Eric Snow <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.) It would certainly be much easier to use (you just have to choose a unique name, like e.g. for capsules). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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/4DIIJJKJBPGWL3UX5WNU35QRJX7U3BBA/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/