Python is a programming language that boasts some of the best versatility among its fellow coding counterparts, including Ruby and Swift. In fact, you can even use Python to expedite tedious tasks ...

Programming language Python is now firmly the second most popular programming language, for the first time knocking Java out of the top two places in RedMonk's language popularity rankings.

The RedMonk language rankings are extracted from analyses of GitHub and Stack Overflow. For GitHub, RedMonk queries languages based on pull requests, leveraging GitHub Archive.