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by dragonwriter 1441 days ago
> Concurrency in Python is a weird topic, since multiprocessing is the only "real" concurrency.

You are confusing concurrency and parallelism.

> Threading is "implicit" context switching all in the same process/thread

No, threading is separate native threads but with a lock that prevents execution of Python code in separate threads simultaneously (native code in separate threads, with at most on running Python, can still work.)