When language architects designed Python, they couldn’t conceive of a world where computers had more than one core. In the 1980s and 1990s, software engineers bet heavily on Moore’s Law, which asserts ...

3. Move math to NumPy. If you are doing matrix- or array-based math and don’t want the Python interpreter getting in the way, use NumPy.By drawing on C libraries for the heavy lifting, NumPy ...

Finally, a book good enough to be both a textbook and a reference on the Python language now exists. Part of Prentice Hall's PTR Core Series, this book works well as a first Python textbook for ...

So Python still has the GIL, although there is an effort, PEP 703, to allow disabling it. Overcoming the GIL to improve Python performance. There are a couple of ways Python programmers can work ...

Saying that it was finally time for the community to bid a “fond but firm farewell to Python 2”, core developer Benjamin Peterson marked the release of Python 2.7.18 on April 20th; offi… ...