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

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 languages ...

Python is a programming language known for its far-reaching applicability that goes beyond web development coding. Python can be a good coding language for new or novice coders because of its ...

If there’s one thing that makes Python incredibly successful, that would be its readability. Everything else hinges on that: if code is unreadable, it’s hard to maintain. It’s also not ...

Don’t get me wrong. Python’s popularity is still backed by a rock-solid community of computer scientists, data scientists and AI specialists. But if you’ve ever been at a dinner table with these ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...

Python is incredibly popular because it's easy to learn, versatile, and has thousands of useful libraries for data science. But one thing it is not is fast. That's about to change in Python 3.11, ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...