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[Python-Dev] Compiling without multithreading support -- still useful?

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Tue Sep 5 12:42:04 EDT 2017 
I proposed to drop the --without-threads option multiple times. I
worked on tiny and cheap embedded devices and we used Python *with*
threads for concurrency. Many Python features require threads, like
asyncio and multiprocessing. Also subprocess.communicate() on Windows,
no?

I'm strongly in favor of dropping this option from Python 3.7. It
would remove a lot of code!

Victor

2017-09-05 18:36 GMT+02:00 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:
>
> Hello,
>
> It's 2017 and we are still allowing people to compile CPython without
> threads support.  It adds some complication in several places
> (including delicate parts of our internal C code) without a clear
> benefit.  Do people still need this?
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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