Python 3.13 adds the ability to remove the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) per PEP 703. Just this past week, a PR was merged in that allows the disabling of the GIL using a command line flag or an environment variable in free-threaded builds. Note that Python must be built using the Py_GIL_DISABLED flag for this […]
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In this screencast, you will learn the basics of using Python’s configparser module
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I recently came across PEP 572, which is a proposal for adding assignment expressions to Python 3.8 from Chris Angelico, Tim Peters and Guido van Rossum himself! I decided to check it out and see what an assignment expression was. The idea is actually quite simple. The Python core developers want a way to assign
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Python added the enum module to the standard library in version 3.4. The Python documentation describes an enum like this: An enumeration is a set of symbolic names (members) bound to unique, constant values. Within an enumeration, the members can be compared by identity, and the enumeration itself can be iterated over. Let’s look at
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