Threading in a PyQt application: Use Qt threads or Python threads?

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This was discussed not too long ago in PyQt mailing list. Quoting Giovanni Bajo’s comments on the subject:

It’s mostly the same. The main difference is that QThreads are better
integrated with Qt (asynchrnous signals/slots, event loop, etc.).
Also, you can’t use Qt from a Python thread (you can’t for instance
post event to the main thread through QApplication.postEvent): you
need a QThread for that to work.

A general rule of thumb might be to use QThreads if you’re going to interact somehow with Qt, and use Python threads otherwise.

And some earlier comment on this subject from PyQt’s author: “they are both wrappers around the same native thread implementations”. And both implementations use GIL in the same way.

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