> On 3 Dec 2021, at 15:23, TobiasHT <higenyi.tob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The GIL has been a widely discussed topic in the Python community. It's has > it's advantages and disadvantages. > I was suggesting that an official way be placed in the Python threading > module to release the GIL if one needs to perform some tasks that don't need > the GIL. > > It could be something as simple as > > thd = threading.Thread(target = encrypt, nogil = True) > > I saw a nogil option in Cython, I just thought it would be great to have it > fully support in Python as we await the results from Sam Gross's paper.
You must hold the GIL to execute python code. Only extensions written in C etc can release the GIL while they do work that does not access any python API. Cython generates C code I believe and can release the GIL because it I’d not python code. In other words this cannot be made to work. Barry > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/5PWD7MXW6EO3ZECUPNXUQHE6HBYZ4JPU/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/ZTHSAFW3E72TXVX6XOYGV5YMZS4IA7OD/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
