We’ll walk through the difference between threads and processes in a Python context, before reviewing some of the different approaches you can take and what they’re best suited for.

a version of Python that allows full concurrency, or multi-threading, by removing the Global Interpreter Lock. Whether you call it “free-threaded” or “no-GIL” Python, the result is the ...

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 ...

I explore the ways you can use threads in Python and the limitations the language puts upon you when doing so. The basic idea behind threading is a simple one: just as the computer can run more than ...