Formal plans for a Python that supports true parallelism are finally on the table. Here’s how a GIL-free Python will finally come together. After much debate, the Python Steering Council intends to ...

A major criticism of the Python programming language is that it can't thread across cores. The reason is because of the CPython's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). The inability to take advantage of more ...

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 ...

Python lets you parallelize workloads using threads, subprocesses, or both. Here's what you need to know about Python's thread and process pools and Python threads after Python 3.13. By default, ...

The Python world has been fractured a few times before. The infamous transition from version 2 to version 3 still affects people today, and there could be a new schism in the future. [Sam Gross] ...