Oops, I didn't expect this to blow up, thanks for responding. Here's a discussion about switch case (I was also looking for one the other day, but in my case,

Oops, I didn't expect this to blow up, thanks for responding. Here's a discussion about switch case (I was also looking for one the other day, but in my case, it was purely for optimization). https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3103/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3103/ And the wiki, for example, talks about the GIL https://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock https://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock I remember reading articles from here about that a few times, but can't find them now. If you are still interested, I can try to dig it up.