The Future of Python Threading

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Aug 10 12:12:53 EDT 2007


In article <slrnfbou9k.vkb.nick at irishsea.home.craig-wood.com>,
Nick Craig-Wood  <nick at craig-wood.com> wrote:
>
>This would of course make C extensions more complicated...

It's even worse than that.  One of the goals for Python is to make it
easy to call into random libraries, and there are still plenty around
that aren't thread-safe (not even talking about thread-hot).
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