Re: Thread safety not mentioned for python bindings

On May 19, 2013 5:01 PM, "Zhao Cai" <zhaocai@gmx.com> wrote:
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> I tried to make some vim function calls from python thread. Some of the functions like `taglist()` are working but I am not sure if it is safe. Can anyone who knows this part of code give an "official" answer? Thanks!

This code is not thread-safe. Vim is using globals for a large variety of purposes and it is better not to run any code from non-main thread. User-defined functions are the worst candidates for such call; with built-in ones you will be lucky more more often, but still it is better to avoid calling vim from the separate thread.

In if_py_both there are some functions which as far as I see are a placeholders for Vim GIL, but they are only the placeholders lacking actual implementation in vim core (and if there was GIL if_py_both.h is a wrong place to define such functions). And they are not used in code I added.

> On Oct 24, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Timothy Madden <terminatorul@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hello
> >
> > I read the python bindings help file (if_python.txt) and I found nothing about thread safety. Although Vim itself does not use threads, the invoked python code can create them and than the main thread can return control to Vim normally. I would like to write a plug-in that listens to a TCP connection in the background, and somehow notifies Vim when new data arrives on the socket.
> >
> > Now, since the documentation says nothing about it, I would assume the python language bindings are not thread-safe, or even if they are thread-safe, that is still an undocumented feature. But does anyone have more specific information please ? Has anyone tried working with treads from python code in Vim ? Can the help file be updated to mention this aspect ?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Timothy Madden
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