Ruby and Python's standard implementations make use of a Global Interpreter Lock. Justin James explains the major advantages and downsides of the GIL mechanism.

Python 3.13 introduced a special ‘free-threading’ or ‘no-GIL’ build of the interpreter to allow full parallelism with Python threads, but it’s still considered an experimental feature.

Official support for free-threaded Python, an experimental JIT, and a smarter installation manager for Windows are among the goodies in Python 3.14. Now in a release candidate.

Threading in Python by Reuven M. Lerner: threads can provide concurrency, even if they're not truly parallel. Using Python for Science by Joey Bernard: introducing Anaconda, a Python distribution for ...

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 ...