Is django orm & templates thread safe?

I'm using django orm and templates to create a backgrou开发者_如何学运维nd service that is ran as management command.

Do you know if django is thread safe?

I'd like to use threads to speed up processing. The processing is blocked by I/O not CPU so I don't care about performance hit caused by GIL.

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If you need run jobs in background, you should use celery