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Python already has several ways to run programs concurrently —
including asynchronous functions, threads, subinterpreters, and multiprocessing
— but all of those options have drawbacks of one kind or another.

PEP 703 (“Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython”)
removed a major barrier to running Python
threads in parallel, but also exposed Python programmers to the same tricky
synchronization problems found in other languages supporting multithreaded
programs. A new draft proposal
by Mark Shannon,

PEP 805 (“Safe Parallel Python”), suggests a way for the CPython runtime
to cut down on concurrency bugs, making it more practical for Python programmers
to use versions of the language without the global interpreter lock (GIL).