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Add the interpreters Module, Implementing PEP 734

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Since May 30, 2025.

3.14 3.15 stdlib topic-subinterpreters type-feature
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Description

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

(This is effectively the successor issue to gh-76785.)

Assuming PEP 734 is accepted (hopefully for 3.14), this issue covers the implementation.

Note that the base implementation already exists as Lib/test/support/interpreters. Thus "implementing" the PEP will amount to moving the files to Lib/interpreters and updating associated references.

TODO:

  • move files from Lib/test/support/interpreters to Lib/interpreters
  • add Docs/library/interpreters.rst, etc.
  • add a multiple-interpreters howto doc (related: gh-123152)
  • update InterpreterPoolExecutor to use interpreters.Interpreter
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

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Links to previous discussion of this feature:

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Linked PRs
  • gh-133958
  • gh-135414
  • gh-135902
  • gh-136141
  • gh-136143
  • gh-136564
  • gh-136605

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