decorators vs GIL

[G. S. Hayes]

Jeff Shannon <jeff at ccvcorp.com> wrote in message news:<10hg5r1hr3g361a at corp.supernews.com>...

>  Threads seem to only be essential when 

> long-running background tasks are involved.  There's a large set of GUI 

> programs where this is not an issue.  



Threads aren't essential even there; processes are not only acceptable
but preferrable in most cases.



The rest of your post was spot-on, exactly the points I've been trying
to convey.