Guido (BDFL) has said that the GIL will not be removed in 3.x, so we'll have to look for other implementations to tackle this problem head-on. As someone else r

Guido (BDFL) has said that the GIL will not be removed in 3.x, so we'll have to look for other implementations to tackle this problem head-on. As someone else remarked, there's a new multiprocessing library that attempts to make this more palatable.