Programmers use the Python programming language to develop applications for use in Web and desktop environments. Python facilitates this through its extensive collection of libraries and the ...

Python 3.13.5 lands as a timely, focused maintenance release. It patches critical regression bugs from 3.13.4, carries ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Suhail Patel joins Thomas ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

The core of the Python data model architecture is special methods (also known as "magic methods"). These methods, which start and end with double underscores, such as __init__, __getitem__, and __len_ ...

Let’s start from the beginning: what is Python and why should you learn it? Python is one of the world’s most popular programming languages. It powers a huge number of extremely influential apps and ...

The language of choice for large, high-performance applications in Linux is almost always C, or somewhat less often C++. Both are powerful languages that allow you to create high-performance natively ...

Python lets you parallelize workloads using threads, subprocesses, or both. Here's what you need to know about Python's thread and process pools and Python threads after Python 3.13. By default, ...