LinuxQuestions.org - CPython GIL threading problem.

We work on a linux server. When I type python, the information is as follow:

Code:

Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, May  1 2012, 13:52:42) 

[GCC 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3)] on linux2

I think this is a CPython version,isn't it?
When I write a threading program, I found some threads would starve.
After some google, I realize there is a thing called GIL(Global Interpreter Lock) in CPython.
If I want to use multithreading in python, What would you suggest? Thanks in advance!

example code that create a thread, and one of the thread would starve in my linux.

Code:

import time

import threading, thread



class thread_reload_config(threading.Thread):

    def run(self):

        while True:

            print("thread to reaload logging config file")

            time.sleep(5)



def main():

    print("enter main function")

    t = thread_reload_config()

    t.start()

    

    while True:

        print("still running")

        time.sleep(3)

if __name__ == "__main__":

    try:

        main()

    except KeyboardInterrupt:

        exit(0)