Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld Get started with the free-threaded build of Python 3.13 True multithreading in Python is here at last! Now, you just need to make it work in your programs.

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

Python 3.13 introduces a JIT compiler that compiles the code into machine code at runtime to improve performance. The Christmas Day (December 25, 2023) pull request on GitHub is peppered with a ...

If you are a software engineer and you need true multithreading capabilities in your Python programs, you could write your threaded apps in Java, and then just have the Python code invoke the Java ...

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 ...