Explore the fascinating history of the Python programming language, from its inception in the late 1980s to becoming one of the most popular and versatile programming languages today.

Ewa Jodlowska, the Python Software Foundation's outgoing executive director, says Python 'will go down in history' - but there is still plenty of work to be done.

For the first time in Tiobe's long-running index, 35-year-old Python has overtaken Java to become the second-most popular programming language. Python, a top choice for data-science and machine ...

Only twice in TIOBE Programming Index history has a language commanded such a high percentage of developers’ interest.

Despite a rocky transition from Python 2 to Python 3, developers are still flocking to the programming language.

In 2019, Python also ranked first in the 'Popular Programming Languages 2019 ' published by the academic journal IEEE Spectrum.

Java’s all-time record of 26.5% rating in 2001 is still far away, but Python, TIOBE said, has it all to become the de facto standard programming language for many domains.

“Python has become the most popular language of choice for learning programming in school and university,” said Ben Finkel, who is a CBT Nuggets Trainer.

“I CERTAINLY didn’t set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption,” says Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist who devised Python, a programming language, in ...