[Python-Dev] Making python C-api thread safe

Thu Sep 11 20:23:05 EDT 2003

Background: I'm new to Python. I just embedded Python into a 
multi-threaded application, and extended Python by callbacks as well. 
During this process I realised that Python is not internally as 
beautiful as externally. It is not thread safe. This surprised me, 
because Python is a quite young programming language. I started thinking 
how to fix this, how to make Python thread safe. Currently Python does 
not support multiprocessor machines or hyperthreading processors. It is 
only a matter of time when this has to be fixed, better soon than later.
How to make C-api thread safe: It's quite simple, in fact. Thread should 
first call