Fortunately for us, the Python developers worked hard to create a multiprocessing module which has an interface that is almost identical to the threading module.

Python 3.13 introduced a special ‘free-threading’ or ‘no-GIL’ build of the interpreter to allow full parallelism with Python threads, but it’s still considered an experimental feature.

Python 3.13.0 experimental free-threading build (tags/v3.13.0:60403a5, Oct 7 2024, 09:53:29) [MSC v.1941 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 On Linux, the most convenient way to use multiple versions of ...

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 ...

Python's "multiprocessing" module feels like threads, but actually launches processes. Many people, when they start to work with Python, are excited to hear that the language supports threading. And, ...

I have worker thread(s) that use the logger. In the main thread, I occasionally need to ask the user to take some action. Which means I need to suppress the ...