The reliability of python threads

[Damjan]

>>  and the GIL is more than an "artifact".  It is a central tenet of
>> threaded python programming.
> 
> If it's a central tenet of threaded python programming, why is it not
> mentioned at all in the language or library manual?  The threading
> module documentation describes the right way to handle thread
> synchronization in Python, and that module implements traditional
> locking approaches without reference to the GIL.

And we all hope the GIL will one day die it's natural death ... 
maybe... probably.. hopefully ;)


-- 
damjan