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Complete an Activity without waiting for execution to finish, using Temporal Client and Activity Function.

Cancel an Activity from a Workflow, sending Heartbeats and setting a Heartbeat Timeout, and handling cancellation errors.

Spawn a new Workflow from within another Workflow, with options for Parent Close Policy and handling Child Workflow Events.

Close a Workflow Execution and create a new one with the same Workflow ID, new Run ID, and fresh Event History.

Develop basic Temporal application with workflows & activities in Python using Temporal SDK.

The Converters and Codecs section of the Temporal Developer's guide provides guidance on how to support compression, encryption, and other special data handling by implementing custom converters and codecs.

The Debugging section of the Temporal Developer's guide covers the many ways to debug your application.

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The Features section of the Temporal Developer's guide provides basic implementation guidance on how to use many of the development features available to Workflows and Activities in the Temporal Platform.

Learn how to interrupt a Workflow Execution by canceling or terminating, including the differences and use cases for each method.

Explore using Signals in Temporal Python to send messages to Workflows, with details on defining, sending, and handling Signals, including customization options.

Learn about observability tools for Temporal applications, covering metrics, tracing, logging, and visibility to monitor and troubleshoot Workflows.

Discover how to effectively Schedule Workflows in Temporal Python, covering creation, management, and operations like backfilling, deleting, and triggering Scheduled Workflows for precise automation timing.

Master the Temporal Python Client with our comprehensive guide that covers everything from initialization to Workflow Execution.

Learn how to use the Temporal Python SDK.

The Testing section of the Temporal Developer's guide covers the many ways to test the state of your Temporal Application; that is, ways to view which Workflow Executions are tracked by the Platform and the state of any given Workflow Execution, either currently or at points of an execution.

Learn how to use timers within Temporal Workflows to delay execution, enabling durable and long-term scheduling of tasks that can persist even if the worker or cluster goes down.

The Versioning section of the Temporal Developer's guide covers how to update Workflow Definitions without causing non-deterministic behavior in current long-running Workflows.