On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 12:00:52PM -0500, Igor Partola wrote: > See > http://www.dabeaz.com/python/UnderstandingGIL.pdffor a great > explanation of all this. For a humorous perspective on the GIL, there's also David Beazley's 2010 PyCon talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEaosS1U5qY -- Randy Barlow