Take advantage of the high-level async functions in Python’s asyncio library to write more efficient Python applications.

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Ruby and Python's standard implementations make use of a Global Interpreter Lock. Justin James explains the major advantages and downsides of the GIL mechanism. Multithreading and parallel ...