So if you’re unlucky, you imported modules A, B, and C, but these depend on modules E, F, G, and H, which in turn depend on I, J, and K. And suddenly you don’t have three but ten modules to ...

Python’s development team chose defaults that reflect the most common real-world scenarios. But if you do need to tweak the way garbage collection works, you can use Python’s gc module .

You can redistribute Cython-compiled modules. If you’re building a Python package to be redistributed to others, either internally or via PyPI, Cython-compiled components can be included with it.

You might be wondering what a Python “package” is, and how it relates to the Python module. Essentially, a package is a group of modules with an __init__.py fie that ties them all together.

In Python, a number of different modules and objects provide such functionality, including os.path, os.stat and glob. This isn't necessarily bad; the fact is that Python developers have used this ...

Devs unknowingly use “malicious” modules snuck into official Python repository Code packages available in PyPI contained modified installation scripts.

In the world of threaded programs, even when you're able to append to the global mylist variable, you shouldn't do it. That's because Python's data structures aren't thread-safe. Indeed, only one data ...