Free-Threaded Python community

· April 17, 2025

(Updated: Apr 22, 2026)

As Thomas posted on the Python Discuss board there is a discord for discussing Free-Threaded/NoGil Python: https://discord.gg/rqgHCDqdRr

Other than the helpful docs the Quansight folks maintain (py-free-threading) it’s been interesting to see some projects and tools pop up on there I hadn’t see. One being Zsolt’s py-free-threading which checks whether your project and deps have FT wheels for any non-pure python deps, which can be run as a 1-liner thanks to uv:

uvx python-ft-deps