Python and multi-threading. Is it a good idea? List some ways to get some Python code to run in a parallel way.

Answer 1

The Global Interpreter Lock only allows one thread (at a time) to access for synchronization purposes, multithreading is not recommended for parallelization as it does not take advantage of multicore features of computers today.  

The module multiprocessing is what you need for parallelization and this module is great for CPU (compute) intensive tasks.