MCP Gets Its Biggest Rewrite and Other Python News for August 2026
MCP drops sessions and renames FastMCP, Claude Opus 5 turns thinking on by default, and Python 3.15 ships its final beta.
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Quiz: Bypassing the GIL for Parallel Processing in Python
Test your understanding of the GIL, process-based parallelism, and the ways to run Python threads in parallel across multiple CPU cores.
Python: how time-machine is O(1) where freezegun is O(n)
A benchmark shows Python’s time-machine library stays O(1) when mocking time, while freezegun scales O(n) with the number of loaded module attributes and becomes dramatically slower as projects grow. The difference…