It's been in the works for a while.

Python already has several ways to run programs concurrently — including asynchronous functions, threads, subinterpreters, and multiprocessing — but all of those options have drawbacks of one kind or ...

There’s more than one way to thread (or not to thread) a Python program. We point you to several threading resources, a fast new static type checker from Astral, a monkey patch for Pandas that adds ...

Threading is the most basic way to implement async code but for Python threading is complicated by the GIL. Find out the basics of threading in this extract from my new book Programmer's Python: Async ...