Python has been held back by its inability to natively use multiple CPU cores. Now Pythonistas are aiming to find a solution For all of Python’s great and convenient features, one goal remains ...

As an FYI, nosferatu-man's and my solutions are better than S. Carton's, but require Python 2.4. The "key" parameter to sort/sorted does a "Decorate-Sort-Undecorate"[1] automatically, whereas the ...

Multithreaded Python applications don’t perform true parallel computing. Instead, they just create the illusion of parallelism. To achieve this, Python schedules a thread to run for a few CPU cycles, ...

So I'm not a programmer, I took a few classes ages ago, but there are some Python scripts in use on the servers here so I figured I'd start. What I'm trying to do is call an API and get a chunk of ...