I am fed up with Python GUI toolkits...

Grant Edwards invalid at invalid.invalid
Wed Jul 20 10:10:31 EDT 2011


On 2011-07-20, Thomas Jollans <t at jollybox.de> wrote:

>> 5. No particular GUI thread synchronization is needed  -- Python has a
>> GIL.
>
> That's where you're wrong: the GIL is not a feature of Python. It is an
> unfortunate implementation detail of current versions of CPython. (and
> PyPy, apparently)

And there are always people trying to figure out how to get rid of it.
So far the cures have been worse than the disease, but that may not
always be the case...

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