Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python's past and explores what's next.

In a contribution to the US PyCon Language Summit this week, van Rossum posted a document on Microsoft-owned GitHub, first spotted by The Register, detailing some of his ambitions to make Python a ...

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 ...

Python is now nearly 30 years old and, depending on which ranking index you read, it's the most widely used programming language in the world and underpins some of the biggest apps in the world ...

Python is one of the world’s most popular computer languages, with over 8 million developers (this is according to research from SlashData). The creator of Python is Guido van Rossum, a computer ...

Python is a high-level language, so it’s not suitable for system-level programming—device drivers or OS kernels are out of the picture. It’s also not ideal for situations that call for cross ...

A major key addition for Python 3.6 was PEP 523, a change to Python’s C API to make it possible for debugging tools, or just-in-time compilers (like Microsoft’s Pyjion project), to intercept ...