Think it's complex to connect your Python program to the UNIX shell? Think again! In past articles, I've looked into concurrency in Python via threads (see "Thinking Concurrently: How Modern Network ...

Python's "multiprocessing" module feels like threads, but actually launches processes. Many people, when they start to work with Python, are excited to hear that the language supports threading. And, ...

Python is powerful, versatile, and programmer-friendly, but it isn’t the fastest programming language around. Some of Python’s speed limitations are due to its default implementation, CPython, being ...

Similar to doing an lsof. I want to tell if a file is done copying before I process it. The copying is external to the script. I originally checked the mod time, waited an interval, then checked the ...

A superset of Python that compiles to C, Cython combines the ease of Python with the speed of native code. Here's a quick guide to making the most of Cython in your Python programs. Python has a ...