Formal plans for a Python that supports true parallelism are finally on the table. Here’s how a GIL-free Python will finally come together. After much debate, the Python Steering Council intends to ...

Powerful, flexible, and programmer-friendly, Python is widely used for everything from web development to machine learning. By the two most-cited measures, Python has even surpassed the likes of Java ...

PEP 703 ("Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython") was posted back in January, then revised in May. It proposes creating a second build of CPython using a new build configuration ...

There is a section of the PEP that mentions runtime selection as a goal: This PEP introduces a new build mode (--without-gil) that is not ABI compatible with the standard build mode. The additional ...