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, ...

Learn which Python standard library modules are headed for the boneyard in Python 3.13, and how to replace them. Python’s been around in one form or another for over 30 years. Over that time, it ...

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.