Here's what you need to know about Python's thread and process pools and Python threads after Python 3.13. By default, Python’s runtime executes in a single thread, with traffic directed by the ...

We’ll walk through the difference between threads and processes in a Python context, before reviewing some of the different approaches you can take and what they’re best suited for.

Rather, you want to launch processes or threads that make use of all those cores, if possible. For parallelism, Python offers multiprocessing, which launches multiple instances of the Python ...

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'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, ...

PROCESSES and threads have one goal: Getting a computer to do more than one thing at a time. To do that, the processor (or processors) must switch smoothly among several tasks, which requires ...