Every programming language has two kinds of speed: speed of development, and speed of execution. Python has always favored writing fast versus running fast. Although Python code is almost always fast enough for the task, sometimes it isn’t. In those…
The Python programming language releases new versions yearly, with a feature-locked beta release in the first half of the year and the final release toward the end of the year. The feature set for Python 3.11 has just been finalized, with a beta ver…
Python has many great features—convenience, a wide range of powerful libraries, a helpful community of users—but a few elements are still missing. Some features found in other languages would make certain jobs easier, but they aren’t coming to Pytho…
Anaconda, makers of the Python distribution for scientific computing, announced at PyCon US 2022 the PyScript project — an in-browser, single-include way to run Python scripts in HTML pages as easily as JavaScript itself.Traditionally, Python could …
Of all the reasons Python is a hit with developers, one of the biggest is its broad and ever-expanding selection of third-party packages. Convenient toolkits for everything from ingesting and formatting data to high-speed math and machine learning a…
Python’s explosive growth over the last decade has shown the world it’s a powerful and flexible way to accomplish very nearly anything you want to do in computing. It’s also clear that Python still has a few painful shortcomings that can’t be ignore…
