[Python-Dev] Compiling without multithreading support -- still useful? (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes christian at python.org
Tue Sep 5 13:08:21 EDT 2017

On 2017-09-05 09:42, Victor Stinner wrote:

I proposed to drop the --without-threads option multiple times. I worked on tiny and cheap embedded devices and we used Python with threads for concurrency. Many Python features require threads, like asyncio and multiprocessing. Also subprocess.communicate() on Windows, no?

I'm strongly in favor of dropping this option from Python 3.7. It would remove a lot of code!

+1

These days, tiny embedded devices can make use of MicroPython.

Christian

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