Warren Postma embed at geocities.com
Mon Feb 14 10:02:42 EST 2000

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> As Fredrik said, yes and no.  Threads are incredibly easy to use in
> Python; the biggest drawback is the Python global interpreter lock,
> which means that only one thread can run Python code at any time.
> That's usually not a big drawback, because threading is usually used to
> optimize I/O, and extension libraries (including I/O) can release the
> global lock.

What about pre-emption? Can the Python interpreter pre-emptively switch
threads
between any two lines of Python code? Is there a "Schedule()" call to force
a thread to
give up it's timeslice?

Warren

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