threading support in python

[Richard Brodie]

"km" <srikrishnamohan at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.20.1157468962.5279.python-list at python.org...

> I know many of my friends who did not choose python for obvious reasons
> of the nature of thread execution in the presence of GIL which means
> that one is  wasting sophisticated hardware resources.

It would probably be easier to find smarter friends than to remove the
GIL from Python.