The Python Software Foundation has appointed a new Developer in Residence (DIR) to work full-time on the Python programming language and support its developer community. Core developer Łukasz Langa, ...

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 ...

What new programming language features would you like to see added to Python? Here are four possibilities — some likely, some not Python is a living language — under constant development to keep up ...

Powerful, flexible, and programmer-friendly, Python is widely used for everything from web development to machine learning. By the two most-cited measures, Python has even surpassed the likes of Java ...

The Python Software Foundation has released the second release candidate (RC) of Python 3.9 and is warning users to watch for deprecation warnings as it drops backward compatibility for unsupported ...

Sitting around with "a lot of time on my hand," Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language ...