[Python] Why we say dequeue in python is threadsafe when GIL already restricts running one...

From what I have been reading Python has GIL that ensures only one thread can run the python code. So I am slightly confused when we say collections.dequeue is thread-safe. If only one thread is run at a time wouldn't objects be in a consistent state already?

It would be great if someone can give an example of how a list in python is not thread safe and using a dequeue possible counters that?

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