[Python-ideas] {Python-ideas] C-API exposure

Tue Mar 29 22:53:44 CEST 2011

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla at molden.no> wrote:
> Den 29.03.2011 21:15, skrev Eric Snow:
>>>> Well people already do this using ctypes...
>>> Haven't used them myself yet.  So you can use them to expose all of the
> C-API?  Cool!
>>> Yes, ctypes.pythonapi exposes the Python C API to Python.
>> You can use it for evil code like this hack to prevent thread switch
> (doesn't work with Python 3, as the implementation has changed). Just make
> sure you don't call extension code that releases the GIL, or all bets are
> off ;-)
>> Sturla
>>>> from contextlib import contextmanager
> import ctypes
> _Py_Ticker = ctypes.c_int.in_dll(ctypes.pythonapi,"_Py_Ticker")
>> @contextmanager
> def atomic():
>     tmp = _Py_Ticker.value
>     _Py_Ticker.value = 0x7fffffff
>     yield
>     _Py_Ticker.value = tmp - 1
>> Now we can do
>> with atomic():
>     # whatever
>     pass

Huh. That's terrifying. Thanks for the example.
Geremy Condra