The Python team has released version 3.14, with big new features including free threading support, the ability to use ...

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 processing ...

Python 3.13 has been released with a slight delay on the home straight. The new interactive shell aims to make development more convenient. In addition, the global interpreter lock can now be ...

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and Python 2.6.5, and learning Tkinter, and I have an issue that I'd appreciate help with. I have a program that initializes a GUI (I'll call this the "GUI process"), then ...

Python often gets a bad rap in terms of performance. Critics often move the goal posts mid-discussion, either unintentionally or simply to get a rise out of Python developers. Here's a typical ...

Python is powerful, versatile, and programmer-friendly, but it isn’t the fastest programming language around. Some of Python’s speed limitations are due to its default implementation, CPython, being ...

Python has been held back by its inability to natively use multiple CPU cores. Now Pythonistas are aiming to find a solution For all of Python’s great and convenient features, one goal remains out of ...