(Python 3 is used for the duration of the article.) The Global Interpreter Lock It’s impossible to talk about concurrent programming in Python without mentioning the Global Interpreter Lock, or GIL.

The just-released Python 3.2 beta shows the language being tweaked for parallel programming The next version of the Python programming language will offer greater support for writing multithreaded ...

The just-released Python 3.2 beta shows the language being tweaked for parallel programming The next version of the widely used Python programming language will offer greater support for writing ...