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. Multithreading and parallel processing ...

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 adds ...

Threads can provide concurrency, even if they're not truly parallel. In my last article, I took a short tour through the ways you can add concurrency to your programs. In this article, I focus on one ...

Python is one of many languges that support some way to write asynchronous programs — programs that switch freely among multiple tasks, all running at once, so that no one task holds up the progress ...