Configuring Python using --enable-optimizations --with-lto (PGO + LTO) is recommended for best performance. The experimental --enable-bolt flag can also be used to improve performance.

Mar 11, 2014 · To make Python available, the CPython team has compiled Windows installers with every release for many years. These installers are primarily intended to add a per-user …

In Python 3.2, a new means of configuring logging has been introduced, using dictionaries to hold configuration information. This provides a superset of the functionality of the config-file-based …

2 days ago · The solution for this problem is to create a virtual environment, a self-contained directory tree that contains a Python installation for a particular version of Python, plus a …

2 days ago · Starting with the 3.13 release, CPython has support for a build of Python called free threading where the global interpreter lock (GIL) is disabled. Free-threaded execution allows …

2 days ago · You don’t specifically need to activate a virtual environment, as you can just specify the full path to that environment’s Python interpreter when invoking Python. Furthermore, all …

If this environment variable is set to a non-empty string, enable Python Development Mode, introducing additional runtime checks that are too expensive to be enabled by default.

2 days ago · This part of the documentation is devoted to general information on the setup of the Python environment on different platforms, the invocation of the interpreter and things that …

3 days ago · To accomplish both, call gc.disable() early in the parent process, gc.freeze() right before fork(), and gc.enable() early in child processes. Added in version 3.7.

3 days ago · On Unix, the Python 3.x interpreter is by default not installed with the executable named python, so that it does not conflict with a simultaneously installed Python 2.x executable.