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Day 5: GIL in python and single threaded nature of python.

Task 1: Read about GIL and why it makes python single threaded in Nature.

You can read this article: Why is python single threaded

You can also read more about memory management in Python.

Task 2: Reading and Writing to a file.

Learn how you can open a file read the content.

1. Whole content at once.
2. Read it line by line. This is very important as you cannot read very large files at once.

Write to a file

1. Normal Mode
2. Append Mode. Also understand about file descriptors.

Task 3: Try to write a program that makes parallel call to github api to get the details of repo and then merge them to create a database in a file.

Use threading library to create the above program.

You can read this article for more: Threads in python

How to contribute in Open Source

This is it for Day 5. All the best!