[Zope] ANNOUNCING: MySQLdb-0.0.3 now available

[Andy Dustman]

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Michel Pelletier wrote:

> Out of curiosity, does it release the Python global interpreter lock
> during I/O operations with the database? 

Absolutely. That was one of the major motivations for writing it.

> This is something I'll be
> doing with the new Sybase DA and the possible DB2 one.  We may want to
> trade notes.

It's pretty darn straight-forward. Got a section that could block? Stick
Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS before and Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS after. Don't
manipulate any Python objects within that region. It's pretty well
documented.
 
> -Michel the too lazy to download the source and look for himself

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