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Guilt-ridden Noor has a terrible secret and longs for salvation by way of a pilgrimage to Mecca, where she believes prayers will be answered, "the spiritual and the mundane." Her wealthy daughter, ...

Functions are the building blocks of Python programming. They let you organize your code, reduce repetition, and make your programs more readable and reusable. Whether you’re writing small scripts or ...

Functions are the building blocks of Python programs. They let you write reusable code, reduce duplication, and make projects easier to maintain. In this guide, we’ll walk through all the ways you can ...

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 ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

I have encountered a deadlock during subinterpreter shutdown after upgrading from Python 3.9.7 to 3.9.8. Git bisection reveals that #28589 ("Fix threading._shutdown() for the main thread (GH-28549)") ...

Consider the function calculate_area which takes two parameters, length and width, and returns the area of a rectangle. You have a tuple dimensions containing the length and width of a rectangle.