Python doesn’t check types at runtime—at least ... the SQL Alchemy ORM, and the Pandas data science library, not to mention analyses for common filesystem issues.

Python may not be the fastest language ... Most modern object types—Unicode strings, for example—are built directly into the language. Data structures—like lists, dictionaries (i.e ...

“Python is a very easy language to learn for non-programmers,” said Peter Wang, president of Continuum Analytics. That’s important because most big-data analysts will probably not be programmer ...