This stems back to parallelism vs. concurrency. Yes, it is true that your Python threads will not run in parallel but they will run concurrently. If you're curi

This stems back to parallelism vs. concurrency. Yes, it is true that your Python threads will not run in parallel but they will run concurrently. If you're curious about parallelism vs. concurrency, here is a great talk by Rob Pike on the subject: http://vimeo.com/49718712 http://vimeo.com/49718712