[vtk-developers] Adding a GIL ensure call before all call to python

[David E DeMarle]

Careful there. We took something very much like that out at ParaView 4.0.
The GIL made ParaView incompatible with many python packages. When I get to
my desk I can check my notes and refresh my memory.
On Jul 3, 2015 5:56 AM, "Mathieu Westphal" <mathieu.westphal at kitware.com>
wrote:

> A client requesting us to apply a patch to paraview so every single call
> to python
> (PyRun, Py_Decref, PyImport, PyObject, PyString... ) to be surrounded by
> PyGILState_Ensure
> PyGILState_Release
>
> if VTK_NO_PYTHON_THREADS is not defined.
>
> is this acceptable ? some python calls are already done like that, see
> vtkPythonUtil.cxx.
>
> This option is defined to 1 by default.
>
>
> Mathieu Westphal
>
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