Threading in Python

[tleeuwenburg at gmail.com]

On Feb 7, 11:14 am, "S.Mohideen" <m... at blackhole.labs.rootshell.ws>
wrote:
> Python is praised about - me too. But at one instance it fails. It fails to
> behave as a true multi-threaded application. That means utilizing all the
> CPUs parallely in the SMP efficiently stays as a dream for a Python
> Programmer.
>
> Discussion threads say its due to GIL - global interpreter lock. But nobody
> has mentioned any alternative to that apart from suggestions like "Code it
> in C" and POSH (http://poshmodule.sf.net). Is there any other way we can
> make Python programs really multithreaded in real sense.
>
> Moin

There are two ways. You can use processes, or you can use IronPython.

Cheers,
-T