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 ...

Another major project, still in its infancy, is removing CPython’s Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), a thread-synchronization mechanism that’s kept Python threads from being properly concurrent.

Python 3.13.0 experimental free-threading build (tags/v3. 13.0: 60403 a5, Oct 7 2024, 09: 53: 29) [MSC v.1941 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 On Linux, the most convenient way to use multiple versions of ...

In the main thread, I occasionally need to ask the user to take some action. Which means I need to suppress the logger from actually printing until the user has a chance to make a decision.

Rather, this shows, at some level, how Python works with processes and the basic ways in which it communicates with them, using bytestrings and pipes. That's because processes are separate and cannot ...

Threading in Python by Reuven M. Lerner: threads can provide concurrency, even if they're not truly parallel. Using Python for Science by Joey Bernard: introducing Anaconda, a Python distribution for ...