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diff Doc/api/init.tex @ 32575:511ffc62b298 legacy-trunk
Remove a few elderly sentences
| author | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> |
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| date | Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:48:54 +0000 |
| parents | 228323895271 |
| children | de804edf8bcd |
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--- a/Doc/api/init.tex Sat Jul 10 13:42:52 2004 +0000 +++ b/Doc/api/init.tex Sat Jul 10 13:48:54 2004 +0000 @@ -357,15 +357,8 @@ The Python interpreter needs to keep some bookkeeping information separate per thread --- for this it uses a data structure called -\ctype{PyThreadState}\ttindex{PyThreadState}. This is new in Python -1.5; in earlier versions, such state was stored in global variables, -and switching threads could cause problems. In particular, exception -handling is now thread safe, when the application uses -\withsubitem{(in module sys)}{\ttindex{exc_info()}} -\function{sys.exc_info()} to access the exception last raised in the -current thread. - -There's one global variable left, however: the pointer to the current +\ctype{PyThreadState}\ttindex{PyThreadState}. There's one global +variable, however: the pointer to the current \ctype{PyThreadState}\ttindex{PyThreadState} structure. While most thread packages have a way to store ``per-thread global data,'' Python's internal platform independent thread abstraction doesn't
