Multithreading in Python: the obvious and the incredible

In this article, I will show a practical example how multithreading works in Python, I will talk about threads, synchronization primitives and why they are needed.

Initially, I planned that this would be a simple and short note, but while I was preparing and testing the code, I found an interesting, undefined behaviour related to the internals of CPython, so don’t close the tab, even if you are sure that you know everything about threads in Python :)

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