Python programmers, help with multithreading?

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Python multi threading is a lie: https://realpython.com/python-gil/ You need multi-processing instead. (maybe it is a good fit for I/O bound tasks, maybe like web requests)

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I see, so Python threads are really coroutines, right? That still works okay in this case.

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yep, that sounds right