For example, using an index of -1 is a handy way to grab the last item from a list no matter the size of the list. In that case, list_of_ints[-1] yields 3 , and list_of_objects[-1] yields None .

A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code. The 12 packages have been discovered in two ...

TIOBE Programming Index News February 2025: Fast Programming Languages Are In Demand Your email has been sent While Python isn’t fast, it has enough entrenched popularity to get a boost from non ...

Python also ended the year as No. 1 in the PYPL index. Though it still sits below perennial mainstays Java and C, it was named 2018's top programming language based on its percentage change in the ...

Stealing SSH and GPG keys. According to Martini, the malicious code was present only in the jeIlyfish library. The python3-dateutil package didn't contain malicious code of its own, but it did ...

The TIOBE Index’s proprietor, TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen, notes the index is not a prize for the “best” language or a list of in which programming language the most code has been written ...