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> won't there be problem down the line with the GIL? If you want parallelism in pure Python code, you don't use multiple threads.

• xapata 10y ago
  Unless you're on Jython or the parallelism is for I/O.
  • dom0 10y ago
    I/O isn't pure code.
    • xapata 10y ago
      That's certainly one way to interpret "pure Python" but many people use that phrase to describe code that is using only builtins and standard library as opposed to community-supplied C extensions.
      • dom0 10y ago
        I honestly disagree, but I do recognize how one could see it that way.
        • xapata 10y ago
          Yeah, it's a bit of a leaky abstraction since many modules in the standard library are implemented in C. And the interpreter itself.