"Klaas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CPython is more that "a particular implementation" of python,
It's precisely a particular implementation of Python. Other implementations include Jython, PyPy, and IronPython. > and the GIL is more than an "artifact". It is a central tenet of > threaded python programming. If it's a central tenet of threaded python programming, why is it not mentioned at all in the language or library manual? The threading module documentation describes the right way to handle thread synchronization in Python, and that module implements traditional locking approaches without reference to the GIL. > I don't advocate relying on the GIL to manage shared data when > threading, but 1) it is useful for the reasons I mention 2) the OP's > question was almost certainly about an application written for and run > on CPython. Possibly true. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
