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> won't there be problem down the line with the GIL?

If you want parallelism in pure Python code, you don't use multiple threads.



Unless you're on Jython or the parallelism is for I/O.


I/O isn't pure code.


That's certainly one way to interpret "pure Python" but many people use that phrase to describe code that is using only builtins and standard library as opposed to community-supplied C extensions.


I honestly disagree, but I do recognize how one could see it that way.


Yeah, it's a bit of a leaky abstraction since many modules in the standard library are implemented in C. And the interpreter itself.




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