[melonrusk]

Are there any plans to remove threading from python ?

A year or two ago I read up on the various efforts to make a fast, more parallel CPython, and one of the core underlying problems seemed to be the use of machine threads, resulting in a very high locking load as the large (potentially unlimited) number of threads attempted to defend against each other.

Letting an operating system run random fragments of your code at random times is very much a self-inflicted wound, so I was wondering if the python community has any plans to not do that any more ?

[miohtama]

Threaded IO code on Python is fine if you are IO limited, as opposite to CPU limited. Most web workloads are like this as they wait database.