Python’s development team chose defaults that reflect the most common real-world scenarios. But if you do need to tweak the way garbage collection works, you can use Python’s gc module .

The cProfile module gathers statistics about the execution time of a Python program. It can report on anything from the entire app to a single statement or expression. Here is a toy example of how ...

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, ...