[Python-Dev] Concurrency and Python

[Edward C. Jones]

Today's Slashdot 
(http://slashdot.org/articles/05/01/07/158236.shtml?tid=137) points to: 
"The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in 
Software" by Herb Sutter at 
"http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm".

Is Python a suitable language for concurrent programming? Should Python 
be a good language for concurrent programming? Python nicely satisfies 
several user needs now including teaching beginners, scripting, 
algorithm development, non time-critical code, and wrapping libraries. 
Which of these users will be needing concurrency? What is the state of 
programming theory for concurrency?