For 30 years, Python had a strict rule called the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). Because of the GIL, it was hard for Python to use multiple CPU cores efficiently in one process. This made it hard to ...

Threads can provide concurrency, even if they're not truly parallel. In my last article, I took a short tour through the ways you can add concurrency to your programs. In this article, I focus on one ...

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 adds ...