A major criticism of the Python programming language is that it can't thread across cores. The reason is because of the CPython's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). The inability to take advantage of more ...

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I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...