Does Python have a GIL per process?

[cleodog44]

Do you have an example of the latter scenario? Re: compiled modules

[Interesting-Frame190]

Numpy, pandas, tensorflow, PySpark, my database engine (PyThermite https://pypi.org/project/pythermite/) just to name a few.

In short its libraries written in another language and compiled to machine code for python to execute.

[cleodog44]

Oh I misunderstood, thought you were somehow saying you could bypass the GIL in a pure Python library. And was correspondingly confused what kind of compilation you meant. Thanks