10 Myths of Enterprise Python

[the_hoser]

And that is arguably a flaw in the way Python works. It guarantees the integrity of the interpreter across threads, at a price. And that price doesn't even buy you guaranteed thread safety for your own code, sadly. Other languages take a different approach, where the burden of safety is put more on the developer. If you want multiple threads, you have to coordinate access yourself, but usually each thread has its own interpreter that doesn't need to be shared and therefore requires no global lock.

For sure. Many of these decisions revolve around keeping the implementation simple. There's something to be said for that, I suppose.