This project demonstrates the use of threads and processes in Python for handling I/O-bound and CPU-bound tasks. The examples include downloading files and performing CPU-intensive computations to ...

Python is a great language 😃, but the GIL (Global Interpreter Lock) is a huge bottleneck 😢. It's a lock that is held by the interpreter while executing any Python code. This means that if you have a ...

Free-threaded Python is now officially supported, though using it remains optional. Here are four tips for developers getting started with true parallelism in Python. Until recently, Python threads ...

There’s more than one way to work with threads, or without them, in Python. In this edition of the Python Report: Get the skinny on Python threads and subprocesses, use Python’s native async library ...

Think it's complex to connect your Python program to the UNIX shell? Think again! In past articles, I've looked into concurrency in Python via threads (see "Thinking Concurrently: How Modern Network ...

Python 3.12, the latest stable release of the Python programming language, was released on Monday, offering developers a handful of new capabilities and the removal of some cruft. The revision arrives ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. When language architects designed Python, they couldn’t conceive of a world where computers had ...