Tag: thread state
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Correction for ‘Python’s Innards: pystate’
Graham Dumpleton (of mod_wsgi fame) pointed out a glaring omission and subtle inaccuracy in my post about Python’s state structures. When discussing what I called “Pythonic threads”, which are threads created and managed by Python, which have a PyThreadState structure allocated to them and that are able to call into the Python API and run…
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Python’s Innards: pystate
We started our series discussing the basics of Python’s object system (Objects 101 and 102), and it’s time to move on. Though we’re not done with objects by any stretch of the imagination, when I think of Python’s implementation I visualize this big machine with a conveyor belt feeding opcodes into a hulking processing plant…