It’s impossible to talk about concurrent programming in Python without mentioning the Global Interpreter Lock, ... but provides a uniquely simple way to implement threads and processes.

If you program in Python, ... Here is a simple example of threading in Python: Listing 1. How Python handles threading from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor import urllib.request as ...

I explore the ways you can use threads in Python and the limitations the language puts upon you when doing so. The basic idea behind threading is a simple one: just as the computer can run more than ...

Try running this program with Python 3.12 or Python 3.13 (the GIL version). On my AMD Ryzen 3600 six-core machine, it completes in about two seconds. With Python 3.13t, it completes in about 0.6 ...