[issue6269] threading documentation makes no mention of the GIL

[Florian Mayer]

New submission from Florian Mayer <flormayer at aim.com>:

I think the GIL should be mentioned in the threading documentation, so
that people do not try to use them for scalability reasons.

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assignee: georg.brandl
components: Documentation
files: threading.rst.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 89259
nosy: georg.brandl, segfaulthunter
severity: normal
status: open
title: threading documentation makes no mention of the GIL
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14264/threading.rst.patch

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