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Asked: 2026-06-15T17:38:35+00:00

Example: image = Image.open(‘foo.png’) # releases the GIL? resized = image.resize((800, 600), Image.ANTIALIAS) #

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Example:

image = Image.open('foo.png')
# releases the GIL?
resized = image.resize((800, 600), Image.ANTIALIAS)
# reacquires the GIL?

Obviously the variable assignment needs to hold the GIL, but it’s difficult to break that up into two lines. 🙂

If there are two threads doing image resizes, can those resizes run on two different cores?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Looking at the source of 1.1.7, it doesn’t appear to release the GIL for _resize.

    The functions that release the GIL seem to be:

    PyImaging_CreateWindowWin32 (createwindow on Win32)
PyImaging_EventLoopWin32 (eventloop on Win32)
pyCMSdoTransform (apply)
_buildTransform (buildTransform)
_buildProofTransform (buildProofTransform)
_encode_to_file (encode_to_file)
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