The newly approved Python Enhancement Proposal 751 gives Python a standard lock file format for specifying the dependencies of projects. Here’s the what, why, and when.

Learn how to use Python’s async functions, threads, and multiprocessing capabilities to juggle tasks and improve the responsiveness of your applications.

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It just does not work for Miniconda virtual environment when it is being executed in a background thread. As mentioned previously, "import scipy" works fine when it is executed in the main thread ...

(Python 3 is used for the duration of the article.) The Global Interpreter Lock It’s impossible to talk about concurrent programming in Python without mentioning the Global Interpreter Lock, or GIL.

With the help of threading module we can implement locking mechanism that allows you to synchronize threads. And a new lock is created by calling the Lock() method, which returns the new lock and ...

There's a Global Interpreter Lock that only lets a single Python thread run at a time. Aside from blocking I/O, python Threads are not very useful.