Free-threaded Python is now officially supported, though using it remains optional. Here are four tips for developers getting ...

Python lets you parallelize workloads using threads, subprocesses, or both. Here's what you need to know about Python's thread and process pools and Python threads after Python 3.13.

The GIL is controversial because it only allows one thread at a time to access the Python interpreter. This means that it’s often not possible for threads to take advantage of multi-core systems.

Even so, the Experimental - Python for the Web (Preview) extension in the VS Code Marketplace has been installed 283 times as of this writing (see screenshot above). The item description lists the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Microsoft's Python in Visual Studio Code dev team introduced three new extensions: Black Formatter, isort and Jupyter Powertoys. The new tools, included in the May 2022 release of the Python and ...