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.

Developers are still using Python for data tasks and AI, but many are still using older releases, putting productivity at risk.

Python programming language: Now you can take NSA's free course for beginners NSA releases Python course after receiving a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for its training materials.

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.