In late 2024, two initiatives aiming to make Python more ‘parallel’ have moved forward significantly: subinterpreters and free-threading. This tracker summarises the compatibility of popular packages with these new features. I’ve built it as a companion to my talk at the Swiss Python Summit 2024, titled ‘Parallel Python at last? Subinterpreters & free-threading in practice’.

The most important Python news in 2023

A lot has happened in Python in 2023. This site is dedicated to organising the most important Python news in 2023. A combination of machine learning and human curation has surfaced the main topics, important articles, and popular projects.