A Python module is an external class or set of functions that exist outside the main file of your program. This can be something that you built yourself, or it can be provided by the community.

So in this article, I take an initial look at working with processes in Python to do a very common task: invoking external commands. In so doing, I also cover how working with processes is structured, ...

Python’s development team chose defaults that reflect the most common real-world scenarios. But if you do need to tweak the way garbage collection works, you can use Python’s gc module.

Python 3.11 adds tomllib to address that problem. Note that tomllib doesn’t create or write TOML files; for that you need a third-party module like Tomli-W or TOML Kit.