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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/init.rst b/Doc/c-api/init.rst index 299af7f..6e185fa 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/init.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/init.rst @@ -416,10 +416,9 @@ 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`. There's one global variable, however: the pointer to the current -:ctype:`PyThreadState` structure. While most thread packages have a way to -store "per-thread global data," Python's internal platform independent thread -abstraction doesn't support this yet. Therefore, the current thread state must -be manipulated explicitly. +:ctype:`PyThreadState` structure. Before the addition of :dfn:`thread-local +storage` (:dfn:`TLS`) the current thread state had to be manipulated +explicitly. This is easy enough in most cases. Most code manipulating the global interpreter lock has the following simple structure:: |