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  24. <span class="emphasis"><em>Niall Douglas provides these notes:</em></span>
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  27. The quick answer to this is: no.
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  30. The longer answer is that it can be patched to be so, but it's complex. You
  31. will need to add custom lock/unlock wrapping of every time your code enters
  32. Boost.Python (particularly every virtual function override) plus heavily
  33. modify <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">python</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">detail</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">invoke</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span></code> with custom unlock/lock wrapping of
  34. every time Boost.Python enters your code. You must furthermore take care
  35. to <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> unlock/lock when Boost.Python is invoking iterator
  36. changes via <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">invoke</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span></code>.
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  39. There is a patched <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">invoke</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span></code> posted
  40. on the C++-SIG mailing list archives and you can find a real implementation
  41. of all the machinery necessary to fully implement this in the TnFOX project
  42. at <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnfox/" target="_top">this</a> SourceForge
  43. project location.
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