[Chandler-dev] float('1.0') failing occasionally in French locale

[Andi Vajda]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Jeffrey Harris wrote:

> Andi, do you know if PyICU ever releases the GIL as it runs a routine?

No, it doesn't do anything with the GIL. None of the PyICU functions are long 
running, so this shouldn't be a problem. If it becomes one, then I'd have to 
switch it to work like PyLucene which releases/reacquires the GIL 
anytime it calls out from python.

Andi..