I have to amend my previous statement, these guys are right. I created this Python script here https://gist.github.com/1329943 https://gist.github.com/1329943 a

I have to amend my previous statement, these guys are right. I created this Python script here https://gist.github.com/1329943 https://gist.github.com/1329943 and ran it. If global context were not shared, then each request would receive a new random number, but they don't. Each request gets the same number. Even without doing this experiment, the result is obvious. There would have to be some meta process to start new interpreter processes here in order to prevent the same environment from being reused. Since that is not the case, because you have to invoke the python interpreter manually here, you cannot get multiple distinct results. (Theoretically, in this code, you could get two different responses if they both entered the `if ... is None` clause in send_head() before one of the requests could cause the global variable to be set.)