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.


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