Digging further, I found this: http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2005/10/does_python_have_a_concurrency.html
Looking up on this info, I found this: http://docs.python.org/c-api/init.html#thread-state-and-the-global-interpreter-lock If this is correct, no amount of threading would ever help in Python since only one core / CPU could *by design* ever be utilized. Except for the code that accesses *no* functions / memory at all. This does seem to be a bit harsh though. I'm now writing a simple test program to verify this. Multiple data- independed threads just so I can see if more than one core can at all be utilized. :( -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
