gh-76785: Handle Legacy Interpreters Properly #117490
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ericsnowcurrently force-pushed the hide-legacy-subinterpreters branch 4 times, most recently from 1e32031 to dcf6e8c Compare ericsnowcurrently force-pushed the hide-legacy-subinterpreters branch from dcf6e8c to 7de833a Compare ericsnowcurrently force-pushed the hide-legacy-subinterpreters branch from 7de833a to e38f141 Compare diegorusso pushed a commit to diegorusso/cpython that referenced this pull request Apr 17, 2024
This is similar to the situation with threading._DummyThread. The methods (incl. __del__()) of interpreters.Interpreter objects must be careful with interpreters not created by interpreters.create(). The simplest thing to start with is to disable any method that modifies or runs in the interpreter. As part of this, the runtime keeps track of where an interpreter was created. We also handle interpreter "refcounts" properly.
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This is similar to the situation with
threading._DummyThread. The methods (incl.__del__()) ofinterpreters.Interpreterobjects must be careful with interpreters not created byinterpreters.create(). The simplest thing is to disable any method that modifies or runs in the interpreter. As part of this, the runtime keeps track of where an interpreter was created. We also handle interpreter "refcounts" properly.