Threading in Python

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <bn787.4044$Me1.99107 at e420r-sjo2.usenetserver.com>,
Andy <andy at mindgate.net> wrote:
>
>There seems to be a lot of (arguably) radical changes going on in the
>Python syntax/grammar/language, perhaps the direction should be towards
>improving the internals first?
>
>One thing Java has which Python lacks is transparent support for
>multi-cpu threading.  Python has threads, but I believe it is
>internally implemented and has been shown not to take advantage of an
>SMP machine.

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