Tutorial by Examples

The simple answer, when asking how to use threads in Python is: "Don't. Use processes, instead." The multiprocessing module lets you create processes with similar syntax to creating threads, but I prefer using their convenient Pool object. Using the code that David Beazley first used to...

Cython is an alternative python interpreter. It uses the GIL, but lets you disable it. See their documentation As an example, using the code that David Beazley first used to show the dangers of threads against the GIL, we'll rewrite it using nogil: David Beazley's code that showed GIL threading ...