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 ...

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 ...

I have worker thread(s) that use the logger. In the main thread, I occasionally need to ask the user to take some action. Which means I need to suppress the logger from actually printing until the ...

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 ...

Free-threaded Python is now officially supported, though using it remains optional. Here are four tips for developers getting started with true parallelism in Python. Until recently, Python threads ...

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 ...