There’s more than one way to thread (or not to thread) a Python program. We point you to several threading resources, a fast new static type checker from Astral, a monkey patch for Pandas that ...

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.

Over the past few years, it has exploded in popularity. Thanks to Microsoft’s Python extension for Visual Studio Code, VS Code has also become one of the best tools for working with Python.

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, ...

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 ...

The December 2023 update to Python in Visual Studio Code introduces several new features, including configurable debugging options that are now available on the Run button menu. Microsoft's dev team ...