Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster ...

The latest annual Python Developers Survey took the pulse of over 30,000 developers to see what makes the community tick in ...

Core Python developers release the next major version of the world's most popular programming language.

But in many cases, it doesn’t have to be an either/or proposition. Properly optimized, Python applications can run with surprising speed — perhaps not Java or C fast, but fast enough for Web ...

Most people put up with this tardiness because of its flexibility and easiness to learn. All of that could be about to change, however, according to Core Python (CPython) developer Mark Shannon.

In 2025, the integration of AI and Python will become increasingly tight. OpenAI's free inference model, o3 - mini, has excelled in areas such as mathematical code generation and physical simulation.

Finally, a book good enough to be both a textbook and a reference on the Python language now exists. Part of Prentice Hall's PTR Core Series, this book works well as a first Python textbook for ...

For all of Python’s great and convenient features, one goal remains out of reach: Python apps running on the CPython reference interpreter and using multiple CPU cores in parallel. This has long ...

There are plenty of memory profilers for Python and plenty for C and C++, but up to this point, there hasn’t been a memory profiler that can work with both Python and C/C++ simultaneously, says ...