How does Python deal with memory management? Learn the ins and outs of Python's garbage collection system and how to avoid its pitfalls.

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.

Well, Python provides threading. Many people think of Python's threads as fatally flawed, because only one thread actually can execute at a time, thanks to the GIL (global interpreter lock). This is ...

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 ...