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Remove a few elderly sentences

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Andrew M. Kuchling 2004-07-10 13:48:54 +00:00
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@ -357,15 +357,8 @@ requests the I/O is waiting for the I/O operation to complete.
The Python interpreter needs to keep some bookkeeping information
separate per thread --- for this it uses a data structure called
\ctype{PyThreadState}\ttindex{PyThreadState}. This is new in Python
1.5; in earlier versions, such state was stored in global variables,
and switching threads could cause problems. In particular, exception
handling is now thread safe, when the application uses
\withsubitem{(in module sys)}{\ttindex{exc_info()}}
\function{sys.exc_info()} to access the exception last raised in the
current thread.
There's one global variable left, however: the pointer to the current
\ctype{PyThreadState}\ttindex{PyThreadState}. There's one global
variable, however: the pointer to the current
\ctype{PyThreadState}\ttindex{PyThreadState} structure. While most
thread packages have a way to store ``per-thread global data,''
Python's internal platform independent thread abstraction doesn't