Configuring Python using --enable-optimizations --with-lto (PGO + LTO) is recommended for best performance. The experimental --enable-bolt flag can also be used to improve performance.

Mar 11, 2014 · To make Python available, the CPython team has compiled Windows installers with every release for many years. These installers are primarily intended to add a per-user installation of …

2 days ago · This part of the documentation is devoted to general information on the setup of the Python environment on different platforms, the invocation of the interpreter and things that make working …

If this environment variable is set to a non-empty string, enable Python Development Mode, introducing additional runtime checks that are too expensive to be enabled by default.

3 days ago · The solution for this problem is to create a virtual environment, a self-contained directory tree that contains a Python installation for a particular version of Python, plus a number of additional …

In Python 3.2, a new means of configuring logging has been introduced, using dictionaries to hold configuration information. This provides a superset of the functionality of the config-file-based …

2 days ago · A virtual environment is created on top of an existing Python installation, known as the virtual environment’s “base” Python, and by default is isolated from the packages in the base …

2 days ago · The Python Development Mode introduces additional runtime checks that are too expensive to be enabled by default. It should not be more verbose than the default if the code is …

3 days ago · The Python Configuration can be used to build a customized Python which behaves as the regular Python. For example, environment variables and command line arguments are used to …

3 days ago · Some third-party packages, in particular ones with an extension module, may not be ready for use in a free-threaded build, and will re-enable the GIL. This document describes the implications …