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		RantyDave on Sept 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Faster CPython 3.12 Plan So, is the GIL released when the thread goes to SQLite? Is the behaviour dependent on how the interfacing between Python and C is written?

remram on Sept 21, 2022 [–]

Yes, it is released [1]. This allows you to access it from multiple thread in the same interpreter though, so I still don't understand robertlagrant's question.

[1]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/4b81139aac3fa11779f6e...

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