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Free threading glossary of building blocks #128642

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@colesbury
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opened on Jan 8, 2025
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As suggested by @markshannon and @Yhg1s:

  • What are the building blocks? Things like _Py_TryXGetRef and _Py_TryIncrefCompare.
  • What are the thread safety guarantees that we are aiming for?

InternalDocs might be a good place.

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  • gh-128642: Add free threading glossary of building blocks to InternalDocs #144644
Reacted by Tomas R. and Cody Maloney
Reacted by Ken Jin

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  4. overlorde commented on Feb 10, 2026

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    I'd like to work on this. I'll draft a free-threading glossary of building blocks for InternalDocs/.

  5. overlorde
    added a commit that references this issue on Feb 10, 2026

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