there is also discussion at the moment of thread-synchronisation on the stackless python list. people were considering ideas related to futures and csp (influenced largely by the oz language, i think).
If someone could summarize those ideas here, that would be great (I have no time to read the oz reference manual, alas).
maybe stackless, with its stronger emphasis on threads, is the place to iron out a really good solution to multi-threading before making changes to standard python?
Um, Stackless has a very different notion of threads than core Python. Stackless threads are non-pre-emptive and cannot be used for overlapping I/O, I believe (at least not easily).
personal opinion: while java may be better than python in this respect i think there are much better solutions out there. i'm a java programmer and in my last project, which was multi-threaded, most bugs came from threading issues.
In any project that is multi-threaded, most bugs will come from threading issues. This is regardless of programming language -- it's a deep, as yet ununderstood property of threads. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)