When trying to make things work with the datetime module, most Python users ... seconds into account. As POSIX time does not handle leap seconds (nor does Python), some companies have defined ...

But over time, more long-lived objects hang around ... But if you do need to tweak the way garbage collection works, you can use Python’s gc module. The gc module provides programmatic ...

Python's "multiprocessing" module feels like threads ... threads—namely the global interpreter lock (GIL), which ensures that only one thread runs at a time. Because a thread cedes the GIL whenever it ...