[Python-Dev] The endless GIL debate: why not remove thread support instead?

[Christian Heimes]

Nick Coghlan schrieb:
> Actually, I believe 3.0 already took a big step towards allowing this by
> changing the way modules are initialised.

You are believing correctly. Martin has designed and implemented a
nicely working API to store extension module data per interpreter state.
 For now interpreter states are used for sub interpreters only.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3121/

Christian