[blitzprog]

I'm using QThread for PyQt GUI applications. However the GIL makes it impossible to execute _Python_ code in parallel. I can understand the reasons for that, however it doesn't change the fact that it makes my application inherently slower and is therefore something I dislike.

Apart from that I really like Python.

[smeg]

Same here. As a nice side effect, QThread somehow makes signals work again, so you can Ctrl-C a MT Python program (you still have to set a handler for SIGINT but at least it works).

For this reason, I actually use QThread in console apps aswell.

[sateesh]

If you are using QThread for console apps and are not using any other Qt libraries, isn't your console app has an unnecessary dependency on Qt ?

[lmm]

Qt's split up into separate libraries; QtCore is pretty much a general portable utility library like glib or APR, and it's perfectly reasonable for a console app to depend on it.

[smeg]

Well I guess it is "unnecessary" to the extent it is unnecessary to be able to Control-C your programs. Personally I like my programs to respond to signals.