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blattimwind on Sept 25, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018

Python threads are real (operating system) threads.

Note that the "threading" and "_threading" modules wrap thread creation and otherwise just use interpreter C APIs. Their design flaw is that they assume that they are the only ones using the interpreter API.

detaro on Sept 25, 2018 [–]

I assume parent is referring to the GIL, which limits the performance benefits you get from threads.

blattimwind on Sept 25, 2018 | [–]

Oh I know, sometimes I just like being pedantic.

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