A whitepaper sounds the alarm on threats hidden as Python "phantom dependencies" and offers a solution with the PEP 770 ...

The Python team wants to alleviate as much of the single-threaded performance impact as possible, along with any other concerns, before giving the no-GIL builds the full green light.

Reports of the Python team’s dismissal have shown up in Reddit, Hacker News, and social.coop. “Google’s Python team was a small team, most of which were also on the Python steering council ...

“July was an extraordinary month for me in the python world,” Kalil wrote. She says the massive haul last month raised her team’s total number of snake captures to 969.