Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Doesn't the GIL protect the bytearray buffer? Or does decoding free the GIL?
Well, decoding can call arbitrary Python code and therefore, yes, release the GIL. Ironically, PyUnicode_Decode() itself (called from PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject()) fills a dummy Py_buffer object before wrapping it into a memoryview... ;) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7415> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
