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. Python Enhancement Proposal ...
Human-readable and machine-generated lock file will specify what direct and indirect dependencies should be installed into a Python environment. Python’s builders have accepted a proposal to create a ...
In late 2021, LWN covered a plan to eliminate the Python global interpreter lock (GIL), thus improving the language's thread-level concurrency. This plan has now been codified as PEP 703, which ...
There is a section of the PEP that mentions runtime selection as a goal: This PEP introduces a new build mode (--without-gil) that is not ABI compatible with the standard build mode. The additional ...