On 25 May 2017 at 20:01, Eric Snow wrote:
> More significantly, I genuinely believe that isolated
> interpreters in the same process is a tool that many people will find
> extremely useful and will help the Python community. Consequently,
> exposing subinterpreters in the stdlib would result in a
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> I'm +1 on Nick's idea of the low-level, private API existing first to
> facilitate testing, but putting off any public API until we're sure we can
> make it function in a way we're happy with to more generally expose.
Same here. I hadn't ex
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> My impression is that the code to support them inside CPython is fine, but
> they're broken and not very useful in the sense that lots of C extensions
> don't really support them, so in practice you can't reliably use them to run
> arbitra
On Thu, 25 May 2017 at 08:06 Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 25 May 2017 at 13:30, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Hm... Curiously, I've heard a few people at PyCon mention they thought
> > subinterpreters were broken and not useful (and they share the GIL
> anyways)
> > and should be taken out.
>
> Taking
On May 24, 2017 20:31, "Guido van Rossum" wrote:
Hm... Curiously, I've heard a few people at PyCon mention they thought
subinterpreters were broken and not useful (and they share the GIL anyways)
and should be taken out. So we should at least have clarity on which
direction we want to take...
M
Eric,
Something like these subinterpreters in CPython are used from Jython's Java
API. Like nearly all of Jython* this can be directly imported into using
Python code, as seen in tests using this feature: https://github.com/
jythontools/jython/blob/master/Lib/test/test_pythoninterpreter_jy.py
Mo
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 8:30 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Hm... Curiously, I've heard a few people at PyCon
I'd love to get in touch with them and discuss the situation. I've
spoken with Graham Dumpleton on several occasions about
subinterpreters and what needs to be fixed.
> mention they thou
On 25 May 2017 at 13:30, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Hm... Curiously, I've heard a few people at PyCon mention they thought
> subinterpreters were broken and not useful (and they share the GIL anyways)
> and should be taken out.
Taking them out entirely would break mod_wsgi (and hence the use of
Ap
