Thread confusion about Python and Windows

[Aahz]

In article <3ec0a481 at usenet.per.paradox.net.au>,
Cameron Zemek <grom_3 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>Then why on earth is there multi-threaded libraries??

Because you can call out to non-Python libraries that *do* run
thread-hot.  It's only pure Python code (or code that uses the Python
API) that blocks on the GIL.  For example, if you run a multi-threaded
web spider on an SMP box, socket calls will run simultaneously on
multiple CPUs.
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