> Graham - the cases you describe are the things I was saying don't
> currently work in my post and wouldn't be helped by Antoine's patch.
> Your thoughts on how we could possibly make it work actually parallel
> mine (although there may be fun and games with making sure the
> respective GILs are acquired and released in an appropriate order when
> switching interpreters).
There is only a single GIL, not one per interpreter. And this mustn't
change since some objects are shared and their reference counts
shouldn't be touched concurrently.