Firstly, is it safe to mix green threads such as eventlet or gevent with python native threads from the standard library, i.e. Lib/threading.py in the same python process?
Secondly, if it is safe, is it a bad idea?
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Firstly, is it safe to mix green threads such as eventlet or gevent with python native threads from the standard library, i.e. Lib/threading.py in the same python process?
Secondly, if it is safe, is it a bad idea?
With
gevent < 1.0it is most likely a bad idea, aslibeventisn’t thread safe. You might be okay if you make sure that the OS threads never interact withlibevent… But that could be tricky, and bugs cause bylibevent‘s lack of thread safety don’t sound like any fun to debug.However,
gevent >= 1.0useslibev, which is entirely thread safe. So (as far as I can tell) there’s no problem mixing green threads and OS threads.