Free-threaded Python is now officially supported, though using it remains optional. Here are four tips for developers getting ...

This is an example of when the threading module’s multitude of options could be useful: we can mark the updater thread as a daemon thread, which means that Python will exit when only daemon ...

Still, we hadn't yet come across a killer feature which we could only use in Python 3.6 to make us finally drop support for Python 2.7. Asyncio, which is not available at all in Python 2.7, became ...

There are some implementations that do not use the GIL (JRuby and IronRuby, for example). Also, you can easily fall back on the process model that Ruby and Python both support, using the ...

A Python program that uses threading is typically a good candidate for using async. Threads in Python are cooperative; they yield to one another as needed. Async tasks in Python work the same way.