Is there such a thing as working threading in python?

Question

I wrote a beautiful multithreaded script, and when I ran it, it performed worse with 25 threads than with just direct invocation of the thread handler.

Then I discovered the global interpreter lock. I want to ask, before I discard python for this script and rewrite the thing in something else, is there any way to do actual working multithreading in python?

Answer 1

The other approach is to abandon threads and instead use the Multiprocessing module (Python 2.6+), which gets around the GIL, and has an API that's at least similar to the one in the threading module.