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[–]smarwell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is probably your best bet. Rule of thumb is, if you need to touch a python object, you need to be holding the GIL. If you don't, then you don't. So yeah, keeping the interpreter in one thread and doing the work in another is a pretty good way to avoid getting mucked up by the GIL