Let’s start from the beginning: what is Python and why should you learn it? Python is one of the world’s most popular programming languages. It powers a huge number of extremely influential apps and ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

These simple operations and others are why NumPy is a building block for statistical analysis with Python. NumPy also makes ...

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The Python world has been fractured a few times before. The infamous transition from version 2 to version 3 still affects people today, and there could be a new schism in the future. [Sam Gross] ...

The May 2020 update of Visual Studio Code's Python extension -- by far the most popular tool in the marketplace -- is mostly routine with a lot of fixes and minor tweaks, though developers showed ...

A faster interpreter, more intelligible errors, more powerful type hints, and a slew of other speedups and tweaks are now ready to try out. The Python programming language releases new versions yearly ...