Learn how to code with the best Python courses available, helping you unlock new job opportunities with the in-demand skill. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She ...

Microsoft has released a new version of the Python language extension for its Visual Studio Code (VS Code) code editor that breaks out its Jupyter Notebooks functionality into a distinct VS Code ...

Python’s design as a language makes it a good choice for projects with multiple authors, as the inherent readability of the language aids in the ability to pick up code and clearly understand ...

(For fans of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" -- an acquired taste -- those questions can be found here.) Microsoft has gone all in on Python for VS Code, and that language extension is now by far ...

On the heels of the VS Code 1.45 release this week with more GitHub integrations, Microsoft's VS Code team has released a new version of the Microsoft Python extension for VS Code, by far its most ...

With Python 3.5, type hints officially became part of the language (see PEP 484). Using a linter or code-checking tool, developers can check the consistency of variables and their types across a ...

While Python is a hugely popular programming language it has limitations, not least of which is how difficult it makes writing very large and complex code bases. Must-read developer coverage ...

Python can be extended with libraries like Cython to nearly meet the performance of the C language, and just-in-time compilers like PyPy can significantly improve code execution speed.

Python has become the go-to language for applications handling large amounts of data. As mentioned above, one of the stalwarts in this area is the library “Pandas”, which is used to extract ...

The dangers of Python’s unguarded code. The Python community acknowledges this menacing unguarded code security flaw, but there is no standard way to protect a system against it, except to simply ...