It's been a leap-ahead year for Python—bringing on more speed, less cruft, and a large and growing user base. Credit: Pavel L Photo and Video / Shutterstock Over the course of 2024, Python has proven ...

Don't expect order-of-magnitude speedups from the next version of Python, but a few key benchmarks show improvement, and every bit adds up With the first beta release of Python 3.6 out in the wild, ...

A team of computer scientists recently unveiled a prize-winning Python profiler called Scalene. Programs written with Python are notoriously slow -- up to 60,000 times slower than code written in ...