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.

In Python, sys.stdin is a read-only file object from which you can grab the user's input. So, if you want to test the "double" function from above, you can (should) replace sys.stdin with another file ...

Free-threaded Python is now officially supported, though using it remains optional. Here are four tips for developers getting ...