> > I beleive the convention is when calling an OS function which might > block the global interpreter lock is dropped, thus allowing other > python bytecode to run.
So what? That doesn't help you, as you are single-threaded here. The released lock won't prevent the called C-code from taking as long as it wants. |And there is nothing you can do about that. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
