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multithreading on Linux

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Mon Sep 4 11:45:35 EDT 2000 
In article <8ovoan$asq$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, yasho  <yavor at einet.bg> wrote:
>
>I am new to Python and my question may be stupid. I am beginning to
>write a application on Linux and I need to know for sure if
>multithreading is supported by the python on Linux and in what degree I
>can rely on it.

Multi-threading is supported and you can rely on it -- provided that you
have compiled Python using --with-thread.  Unfortunately, that's not the
default option in current shipping versions of Python, so the Python
included on shipping Linux distributions is *NOT* thread-enabled.  This
may be a problem if you intend to make your application available to
other people.

Python 2.0 changes this default so that threading *is* enabled, but it
is only having its first beta this week.  If your application isn't
going to ship for roughly six months, I'd recommend switching to 2.0
right now.
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