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 processing ...

Python is one of many languges that support some way to write asynchronous programs — programs that switch freely among multiple tasks, all running at once, so that no one task holds up the progress ...

One of the biggest and most exciting new features in Python 3.15 is the new statistical sampling profiler. This is a massive change that’s going to make a lot of developers' liv ...