In 2014, under Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 466, Python developers decided to backport the OpenSSL ssl module from Python 3.4 to Python 2.7, despite 2.7 already being a maintenance release.

The vast majority of Python objects don’t have reference cycles, so the garbage collector doesn’t need to run 24/7. Instead, the garbage collector uses a few heuristics to run less often and ...

Python's "multiprocessing" module feels like threads, but actually launches processes. Many people, when they start to work with Python, are excited to hear that the language supports threading. And, ...