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

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.

Think it's complex to connect your Python program to the UNIX shell? Think again! In past articles, I've looked into concurrency in Python via threads (see "Thinking Concurrently: How Modern Network ...