There’s more than one way to thread (or not to thread) a Python program. We point you to several threading resources, a fast new static type checker from Astral, a monkey patch for Pandas that ...

It just does not work for Miniconda virtual environment when it is being executed in a background thread. As mentioned previously, "import scipy" works fine when it is executed in the main thread ...

or otherwise just runs a lot of python code (thousands of opcodes in python 2.7, milliseconds in python 3.x). The reason is that by design, when the main thread does Py_Initialize and initializes ...

However, Python 3.5 added a new feature called 'asyncio', which, when used correctly, can be excellent for writing efficient IO-bound code.

Python 3.13 introduces a revamped interactive interpreter with streamlined features like multi-line editing, experimental free-threaded mode, alongside the introduction of a Just-in-Time (JIT ...

Unfortunately, since Python waits for all threads to finish executing before it exits, the program will never exit and the status updater thread will never stop printing.

The global interpreter lock is both a key component of the Python runtime and a major obstacle to multithreading. These are the plans to get around it or get rid of it.