About
My name is Giampaolo Rodola. I'm a passionate Python developer who loves writing open source libraries for fun. I'm mostly known for being the author of psutil. Below is a list of my contributions to the world.
Interviews¶
Projects¶
psutil: a cross-platform library for retrieving information on running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network) in Python. (2008 - now)
pyftpdlib: a very fast, asynchronous, pure-python FTP server. (2006 - now)
psleak: test framework to detect memory and resource leaks in Python C extensions. (2025 - now)
pysendfile: a binding to the sendfile(2) syscall which lets you send a file twice as fast as with a common socket. (2011 - deprecated)
python-dev contributions¶
In 2010 I was given commit access to the Python repository. My contributions are mainly focused on the Python standard library. Some I particularly care about:
| BPO | Module / API | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 144047 | subprocess | use efficient event-driven process wait() on POSIX (blog post) |
| 33671 | shutil | faster file copy with zero-copy syscalls (PyCon China talk) |
| 33695 | shutil | faster file copy by using os.scandir + caching |
| 4080 | unittest | unittest timings |
| 10882 | os.sendfile | expose sendfile() syscall |
| 17552 | socket.sendfile | sendfile() high-level wrapper |
| 17561 | socket.create_server | utility function for dual-stack IPv4/6 TCP servers |
| 2054 | ftplib.TLS_FTP | FTP over SSL support |
| 12442 | shutil.disk_usage | disk usage metrics |
| 10784 | os.setpriority | get/set process priority |
| 21076 | signal | signal module constant enums |
| 18931 | selectors | Solaris /dev/poll support |
Python recipes¶
Whatever is not big enough to become an actual project I usually turn into an independent recipe. Here are the ones I like the most:
Abandoned projects¶
These are from when I took my first steps with Python in 2005. Listed here mainly for historical / nostalgic reasons.
Contacts¶
- GitHub
- X
- Medium
- Email: g.rodola@gmail.com (PGP public key, keybase.io)