Want to make a Python user grind their teeth? Just recite three words: Python is slow. In many of the ways that matter, it’s true. “Pure” Python, without external libraries written in C, is nowhere ...

Python programs are set to get faster startup times with PEP 810 "Explicit lazy imports," which allows scripts to defer loading imported libraries until they're actually needed rather than at startup.

Would you trust an AI agent to run unverified code on your system? For developers and AI practitioners, this question isn’t just hypothetical—it’s a critical challenge. The risks of executing ...

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has released three new versions of popular programming language Python in what has been a bumpy start to 2022, but Core Python developers are making progress on ...

Incremental improvements are on the way that promise to speed up Python by a factor of 2x to 5x, and remain compatible with existing code. At the Python Language Summit held at PyCon 2021 this week, ...