Python Concurrency & Parallel Programming
Learning Path ⋅ Skills: Multithreading, Multiprocessing, Async IO
With this learning path you’ll gain a deep understanding of concurrency and parallel programming in Python. You can use these newfound skills to speed up CPU or IO-bound Python programs.
Python Concurrency & Parallel Programming
Learning Path ⋅ 6 Resources
Tutorial
Speed Up Your Python Program With Concurrency
Learn what concurrency means in Python and why you might want to use it. You'll see a simple, non-concurrent approach and then look into why you'd want threading, asyncio, or multiprocessing.
Interactive Quiz
Python Concurrency Quiz
In this quiz you’ll review topics covered in the Speed Up Your Python Program With Concurrency tutorial.
Course
Hands-on Python 3 Concurrency With the asyncio Module
Learn how to speed up your Python 3 programs using concurrency and the asyncio module in the standard library.
Course
An Intro to Threading in Python
Learn how to use threading in your Python programs. You'll see how to create threads, how to coordinate and synchronize them, and how to handle common problems that arise in threading.
Tutorial
Async IO in Python: A Complete Walkthrough
This tutorial will give you a firm grasp of Python’s approach to async IO, which is a concurrent programming design that has received dedicated support in Python, evolving rapidly from Python 3.4 through 3.7 (and probably beyond).
Tutorial
What is the Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)?
Learn how the GIL affects the performance of your Python programs.
Course
Parallel Map Reduce in Python
How to do parallel processing with multiprocessing and concurrent.futures using a functional programming map-reduce approach.