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An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

Python 2.7, expected to be the last major version in the 2.x series of the dynamic language, was released as a second alpha earlier this month by the Python Software Foundation, with the final release ...

It might have to do with Python 3 removing the classic int type and moving all int operations to longs. If you compare Python2's Objects/intobject.c's i_divmod() function to Python3's ...