I compared execution time of code - which included CPU & I/O bound scripts and a WSGI app using the default and free-threaded Python 3.14 interpreters. This was for my talk: “Goodbye GIL - Expl...

I created a Python project recently to test out Junie - the new AI coding agent from JetBrains. This led to the creation of Pyzlides, a Python library that lets us build presentation slides entirel...

I attended Pycon US in Pittsburgh - This was my first in-person Pycon US. At this PyCon, I decided to try something different. I skipped most of the talks and focused on the hallway track - just w...

My first tutorial for Real Python got published 🎉 “Python Thread Safety: Using a Lock and Other Techniques”: https://realpython.com/python-thread-lock/ Why thread safety? Below is a classic exam...

Since threads in Python share the memory space of their parent process, we might need to define thread-specific variables for specific use cases to avoid unintended side effects. In this article, ...

In Python, the sort method and the sorted callable are commonly used for sorting operations. sort is a list method which modifies the list in-place, whereas sorted takes an iterable as its first a...

The partition method of str covers a niche use case - It is useful when a string needs to be split into exactly two parts based on a separator. It returns a three-membered tuple containing the part...

TIL - “Today I learned” series of Posts are short notes of new things I encounter with Python. While browsing the source of SQLAlchemy, I came across a custom list class The custom class is crea...

This is my account of meeting Guido Van Rossum and his advice on becoming a Python Core Developer. This interaction is a few months old and happened during Pycascades in Vancouver (18-19 March 202...

Thread Safety in Python Before getting started with Thread safety, let’s look into race conditions. Race Conditions From Wikipedia: A race condition or race hazard is the condition of an elec...