Victor Stinner 🐍

@VictorStinner

Maintain Python upstream (python.org) and downstream (RHEL and Fedora) for Red Hat. Python core developer.

France - he/him

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Victor Stinner 🐍
@VictorStinner
Aug 10
Interesting discussions on new convenient APIs to start Python threads: run(func, *args), with ThreadManager(), and ThreadSet:
discuss.python.org
Add a threading.run convenience function
I think that I would be fine with a threading.run() function which doesn’t accept function keyword arguments, but only threading.Thread keyword arguments: def run(func, *args, name=None, daemon=None,...
Victor Stinner 🐍
@VictorStinner
Jul 4
New long article on PEP 814 Add frozendict built-in type vstinner.github.io/pep-814-add-fr… Donghee Na @dongheena92 & me wrote PEP 814 to add frozendict implemented in C. Here is the long journey of adding the type to Python 3.15: implementation, stdlib changes, optimizations, complex bugs.
Victor Stinner 🐍
@VictorStinner
Jun 18
I'm writing an article series on Free Threading internals. The 3rd article vstinner.github.io/free-threading… introduces PyMutex: one byte lock with fast, inlineable lock and unlock functions for the common uncontended case. The design is based on WebKit's WTF::Lock.
Victor Stinner 🐍
@VictorStinner
Jun 18
The Python test suite now pass on Alpine Linux (musl C library): discuss.python.org/t/the-python-t… I increased the stack size to 1 MiB and skipped the few tests known to fail on musl.
discuss.python.org
The Python test suite now pass on Alpine Linux (musl C library)
Hi, After many changes over multiple months, the Python test suite now pass on Alpine Linux which uses the musl C library. For example, the AMD64 Alpine Linux buildbot workers pass on 3.14, 3.15 and...
Victor Stinner 🐍
@VictorStinner
Jun 4
I'm writing an article serie on Free Threading internals. The second article vstinner.github.io/free-threading… analyzes immortal objects, deferred reference count, and stack references which reduce reference count contention by optimizing Py_INCREF()/Py_DECREF().