Raymond Hettinger, Keynote on Concurrency, PyBay 2017

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a clear, charismatic starting point for understanding Python concurrency and the GIL.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

SF Python

Topic

python concurrency

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• I've started watching Raymond Hettinger's talks lately. He's a core dev on Python. I love them, the guy is charismatic, very smart and his Python knowledge constantly impresses me. [LINK] My favourite: [VIDEO]

• I've just left the question open, but the best learning material for me on this was this lecture. Other points down the list, I had to figure out just by trial and error. Raymond Hettinger, Keynote on Concurrency, PyBay 2017 [VIDEO]

• It is because only one thread at a time holds the lock in order to avoid race conditions. The keynote[1] by Raymond Hettinger from PyBay '17 will be a great place to start if you are new to this. [1] [VIDEO]