Parallelization on muli-CPU hardware?

[Sam G.]

According to the fact that all Thread run on the same CPU (if i didn't 
understand wrong), i'm asking if python will suffer from the future 
multicore CPU. Will not python use only one core, then a half or a 
quarter of CPU ? It could be a serious problem for the future of python...

I'm sorry if I ask a stupid alsmost-newbie question, but it's not the 
first time I'm asking it.

Sam.



Andrew Dalke wrote:
> No.  Python only supports one interpreter per process.  There
> may be several threads running, but only in the context of a
> single interpreter.  Why?  Various data structures assume
> global state.  One is support for different modules.