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authorArmin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>2012-07-31 23:15:53 +0200
committerArmin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>2012-07-31 23:15:53 +0200
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Document the GIL release.
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@@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ allowed.
| union | | | and read/write |
| | | | struct fields |
+---------------+------------------------+ +----------------+
-| function | same as pointers | | call |
+| function | same as pointers | | call (**) |
| pointers | | | |
+---------------+------------------------+------------------+----------------+
| arrays | a list or tuple of | a <cdata> | len(), iter(), |
@@ -974,6 +974,9 @@ with a ``char *`` argument to which you pass a Python string will not
actually modify the array of characters passed in, and so passes directly
a pointer inside the Python string object.
+.. versionchaned:: 0.3
+ (**) C function calls are now done with the GIL released.
+
Reference: verifier
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