But Python faces at least one big obstacle to its future growth as a programming language. It’s called the GIL, the global interpreter lock, and Python developers have been trying to remove it ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in ...

Every modern programming language supports threading across cores. Python likely never will. So what can Python developers do to address the flawed GIL and Python’s multithreading mistake? Not much.

Python 3.13, the latest major release ... promise a more robust and dynamic programming experience. The experimental disabling of GIL enables current libraries and frameworks to adjust and make ...

It’s impossible to talk about concurrent programming in Python without mentioning the Global Interpreter Lock, or GIL. This is because of the large impact it has on which approach you select ...

Python is the winner for almost anyone who doesn't program, versus statically typed languages such as Java, C, C++ or C#. The global interpreter lock (GIL) in Python enables the interpreter to easily ...

Because a thread cedes the GIL whenever it uses I/O ... External Processes in Python", I described how you can launch processes from within a Python program, but those examples all demonstrated that ...