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						[$] An explicit thread-safety proposal for Python
	Monday November  3, 2025. 06:44 PM , from LWN.net
 
Python already has several ways to run programs concurrently — 
including asynchronous functions, threads, subinterpreters, and multiprocessing — but all of those options have drawbacks of one kind or another. PEP 703 ('Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython') removed a major barrier to running Python threads in parallel, but also exposed Python programmers to the same tricky synchronization problems found in other languages supporting multithreaded programs. A new draft proposal by Mark Shannon, PEP 805 ('Safe Parallel Python'), suggests a way for the CPython runtime to cut down on concurrency bugs, making it more practical for Python programmers to use versions of the language without the global interpreter lock (GIL). 
https://lwn.net/Articles/1043568/
 
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