The GIL is less about python being easy to embed, than it is about embedding other libraries into python. The GIL was set up to make it easy to wrap C code and

The GIL is less about python being easy to embed, than it is about embedding other libraries into python. The GIL was set up to make it easy to wrap C code and expose it to python code. A task for which it served quite well at the time and to be honest lasted longer than I would have expected.