> I don't think the blog you cite backs up your claim of "it's still really easy to run into race conditions". > The author literally says: "This was actually

> I don't think the blog you cite backs up your claim of "it's still really easy to run into race conditions". > The author literally says: "This was actually pretty hard to discover. The first few experiments failed, because Python is pretty smart about when it runs each thread." I completely disagree here with your reading. Rare race conditions are much worse than races you trip over frequently.