Feb. 9, 2012
7:19 p.m.
The GIL annoys those who have learned to expect threading.Thread for CPU bound concurrency in advance -- which typically means prior experience with Java. Python threads are fine for their intended use -- e.g. I/O and background tasks in a GUI.
Even for that purpose they're too heavy. The GIL conflicts, and boilerplate overhead spawning threads is obscene for more than trivial cases.