Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

I'm rather new to Python and I'm trying to solve a small problem with Threads. This might be "oh that's easy, it's simple_method()", or it could be a "sorry, that's totally impossible", I'm not sure.

From simple timers and benchmarking modules to sophisticated stats-based frameworks, look to these tools for insight into the performance of your Python program. Every programming language has two ...