An IIT Kharagpur graduate's social media post went viral. The post credited the Python programming language for his new home. The post received mixed reactions. Some celebrated his success. Others ...

Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster ...

October saw Python at No. 3 with the largest year-over-year growth percentage in the top 50 languages. Java, still at second place in October, had the largest negative year-over-year growth rate ...

The momentum behind the language is driven by useful libraries that get developed, he adds. These include the NumPy and SciPy libraries for Python, which Netflix uses to perform numerical analysis ...

Despite taking several years to become fully popularised, Python continues to dominate the programming sphere thanks to its clean and relatable syntax, readability, and ease of learning for ...

Python recently celebrated its 30th birthday, and pioneers of the language have been reflecting on its significance as an open source project.