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Will Stuyvesant hwlgw at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 16 03:34:48 EDT 2002 
> [Aahz]
> Ah!  You need to set up your C primitives to release the GIL.  That
> should be easy as long as your C functions don't need to communicate
> with other threads *or* Python while they operate.

I am only doing Python programming, so I have no idea how to release a
GIL.  Also, I am on Windows (without M$ compiler).

Can you point to a list of Python functions that release the GIL?  If
it exists... For example the ** operator does not...as can be seen in
an earlier post.  A list with safe and unsafe functions would be
useful!


'''
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by
definition, not smart enough to debug it. 
                -- Brian W. Kernighan 
'''
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