python threads

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Sat Dec 22 15:16:51 EST 2001


In article <3C24E646.1CF22B03 at accessforall.nl>,
Ype Kingma  <ykingma at accessforall.nl> wrote:
>curt finch wrote:
>> 
>> My understanding is that python's current threads implementation
>> does not really allow for this in the sense that only one thread
>> can be running at a time, regardless of the number of chips on
>> the machine, and additionally that the threads cannot really
>> interrupt each other and still maintain correct state.
>> 
>> Is that all correct?
>
>It is correct for CPython, as others explained.

As I explained, it's only partially correct.
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