Exploring Python’s New Subinterpreters
The Python community never ceases to innovate. One of the most recent additions to Python’s vast feature set is “subinterpreters”. As the name suggests, subinterpreters provide a way to run multiple isolated Python interpreters within a single process. Let’s dive deeper into this novel concept and discuss its advantages and potential use cases. What are Subinterpreters? At a high level, each subinterpreter in Python has its own distinct memory space and execution state. This means that objects and modules created within one subinterpreter aren’t directly accessible from another. Imagine them as isolated rooms in the large house of the Python process, each running its own Python code, but unable to peek into the other rooms. ...