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I'm using QThread for PyQt GUI applications. However the GIL makes it impossible to execute _Python_ code in parallel. I can understand the reasons for that, however it doesn't change the fact that it makes my application inherently slower and is therefore something I dislike.

Apart from that I really like Python.

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Same here. As a nice side effect, QThread somehow makes signals work again, so you can Ctrl-C a MT Python program (you still have to set a handler for SIGINT but at least it works).

For this reason, I actually use QThread in console apps aswell.

If you are using QThread for console apps and are not using any other Qt libraries, isn't your console app has an unnecessary dependency on Qt ?

Well I guess it is "unnecessary" to the extent it is unnecessary to be able to Control-C your programs. Personally I like my programs to respond to signals.

Qt's split up into separate libraries; QtCore is pretty much a general portable utility library like glib or APR, and it's perfectly reasonable for a console app to depend on it.

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