Explore the fascinating history of the Python programming language, from its inception in the late 1980s to becoming one of the most popular and versatile programming languages today.

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 ...

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.

Python’s Meteoric Rise: From 2016-2018, KDNuggets and Kaggle report that Python overtook R as the most used programming language for data science-related purposes: today, more than 65% of all ...

The latest releases of Python are versions 3.8.13, 3.9.13 and 3.10.5. Python 3.11 is currently in beta, with beta 3 released at the beginning of June 2022, and is due to be released in October 2022.

Python is a high-level language, so it’s not suitable for system-level programming—device drivers or OS kernels are out of the picture. It’s also not ideal for situations that call for cross ...