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 ...

Python facilitates this through its extensive collection of libraries and the flexibility of the language and its interpreter.

What is Python? Python is a multipurpose programming language, and it has applicability pretty much anywhere that uses data, mathematical computation, or lines of code.

The new interpreter will run Python programs as much as 5% faster, with no changes to existing code required. A beta of Python 3.14 is due in May.