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, the most popular programming language today, has reached version 3.10, marking the next major release since the decade-long transition from Python 2.7. Tiobe, the compiler of a 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 ...

A new project to change the CPython runtime to boost multithreaded performance has drawn the attention of Python’s core development team. One of Python’s long-standing weaknesses, its inability to ...

Bloomberg’s Python Infrastructure team supports the more than 3,000 Bloomberg engineers who write Python code. The team provides critical infrastructure to ensure that every one of our developers has ...