Baptiste Lepilleur <baptiste.lepilleur <at> gmail.com> writes: > > I've tried, but there is no change in result (the regexp does not use \w & > co but specify a lot unicode ranges). All strings are already of unicode > type in 2.6.
No they aren't. You should add "from __future__ import unicode_literals" at the start of your script and run it again. > Hmmm, I was confusing with other modules (bzip2 & hashlib?). Looking back at > the result of your benchmark it's obvious. Is there a place where the list of > functions releasing the GIL is available? I did not see anything in > bz2.compress documentation. No, there isn't. You'd have to test, or read the source code. But bz2 and zlib, for example, do release the GIL. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
