Why is reading not thread-safe?

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I was wondering why reading from memory is not thread-safe. Among what I've seen so far, inter alia this question, reading from memory does not appear to be thread-safe.

I've been coding in Python for a while and now getting into C++. I've never heard that reading in Python is not thread-safe.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if not, please tell me why reading from memory is not thread-safe.

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