Simon Willison’s Weblog

Intro to Threads and Processes in Python (via) I really like the diagrams in this article which compares the performance of Python threads and processes for different types of task via the excellent concurrent.futures library.

# 19th April 2018, 6:32 pm / multiprocessing, threading, python

What’s New in Python 2.6 (via) Python 2.6 final has been released (the last 2.x version before 3.0). multiprocessing and simplejson (as json) are now in the standard library, any backwards compatible 3.0 features have been added and the official docs are now powered by Sphinx (used by Django 1.0 as well). There’s plenty more.

# 2nd October 2008, 11:47 am / django, python, releases, json, simplejson, multiprocessing, sphinx-docs

What’s New in Python 2.6. The new multiprocessing package looks pretty useful, especially as it provides a way to work around Python’s GIL.

# 1st September 2008, 9:03 pm / gil, python, multiprocessing