Python lets you parallelize workloads using threads, subprocesses, or both. Here's what you need to know about Python's thread and process pools and Python threads after Python 3.13.

There’s more than one way to thread (or not to thread) a Python program. We point you to several threading resources, a fast new static type checker from Astral, a monkey patch for Pandas that ...

I then can invoke that function by creating a new instance of threading.Thread, telling the new instance not only which function I want to run in a new thread, but also which argument(s) I want to ...

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, ...

Python can’t thread across cores. Python apps can do a multithreading, but those threads can’t run across cores. It all happens on a single, solitary CPU, no matter how many CPUs exist in the system.

Ruby and Python's standard implementations make use of a Global Interpreter Lock. Justin James explains the major advantages and downsides of the GIL mechanism. Multithreading and parallel ...