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 ...

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The advantage of Python is that you can apply operations to larger datasets with hundreds, even thousands, of data points ...