[Michael Hudson] >> I've been looking at this area partly to try and understand this bug: >> >> [ 1163563 ] Sub threads execute in restricted mode >> >> but I'm not sure the whole idea of multiple interpreters isn't >> inherently doomed :-/
[Martin v. Löwis] > That's what Tim asserts, saying that people who want to use the > feature should fix it themselves. I haven't said they're doomed, although I have said that people who want to use them are on their own. I think the latter is simply an obvious truth, since (a) multiple interpreters have been entirely unexercised by the Python test suite ("if it's not tested, it's broken" rules); (b) Python developers generally pay no attention to them; and (c), as the teensy bit of docs for them imply, they're an "80% solution", but to a problem that's probably more sensitive than most to glitches in the other 20%. I've also said that Mark's thread state PEP explicitly disavowed responsibility for working nicely with multiple interpreters. I said that only because that's what his PEP said <wink>. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com