Concurrent tasklets in Stackless Python

[Aahz]

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In article <mailman.1569.1236642427.11746.python-list at python.org>,
Minesh Patel  <minesh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Can you suggest any Python libraries for true parallelism or should I
>just stick with Python Threads or asyncore

Python threads are mostly only parallel for I/O (you have to write
special C code to release the GIL).  If you want parallel CPU in pure
Python, you should use e.g. the multiprocessing library.
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