On Nov 4, 2006, at 3:49 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Notice that at least the following objects are shared between > interpreters, as they are singletons: > - None, True, False, (), "", u"" > - strings of length 1, Unicode strings of length 1 with ord < 256 > - integers between -5 and 256 > How do you deal with the reference counters of these objects? > > Also, type objects (in particular exception types) are shared between > interpreters. These are mutable objects, so you have actually > dictionaries shared between interpreters. How would you deal with > these?
All these should be dealt with by making them per-interpreter singletons, not per address space. That should be simple enough, unfortunately the margins of this email are too small to describe how. ;) Also it'd be backwards incompatible with current extension modules. James _______________________________________________ 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
