The global interpreter lock is both a key component of the Python runtime and a major obstacle to multithreading. These are the plans to get around it or get rid of it.

Multithreaded Python applications don’t perform true parallel computing. Instead, they just create the illusion of parallelism. To achieve this, Python schedules a thread to run for a few CPU cycles, ...

So I'm not a programmer, I took a few classes ages ago, but there are some Python scripts in use on the servers here so I figured I'd start. What I'm trying to do is call an API and get a chunk of ...