Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python's past and explores what's next.

[Damien George] just created Micro Python (Kickstarter alert!), a lean and fast implementation of the Python scripting language that is optimized to run on a microcontroller. It includes a complete… ...

The Python programming language is a hit for data science and machine-learning projects on high-powered hardware, but one of its weaknesses is speed. Anaconda, a company that provides a leading ...

The work commenced in 2020 around Project Zen with the goal of providing a more, ah, soothing and copasetic experience for Python coders writing Spark jobs. Project Zen has already resulted in better ...

Python was created in 1989 by Guido van Rossum who returned from retirement last year to work for Microsoft 's expanding open-source teams. Previously, he'd headed up Python efforts at Dropbox.

Spiffy and convenient as Python is, most everyone who uses the language knows it’s comparatively creaky—orders of magnitude slower than C, Java, or JavaScript for CPU-intensive work. But ...

Libraries are collections of shared code. They're common in Python, where they're also called "modules," but they're also ...

Python provides a way to work around this: virtual environments. Python virtual environments allow a project folder to have its own local copies of libraries that supersede the versions installed ...