After months of silence, the Pyston project — a Dropbox-sponsored initiative to create a high-performance, JIT-compiling Python runtime — has announced a new version. The bad news: Pyston 0.5 is ...

There is a phenomenon in the Python programming language that affects the efficiency of data representation and memory. I call it the "invisible line." This invisible line might seem innocuous at ...

Developer tooling provider Anaconda Inc. today announced that it has closed a Series C funding round worth more than $150 million. Insight Partners led the investment with participation from Mubadala ...

Want to make a Python user grind their teeth? Just recite three words: Python is slow. In many of the ways that matter, it’s true. “Pure” Python, without external libraries written in C, is nowhere ...

PEP 810 approved following lengthy debate among developer community Python programs are set to get faster startup times with ...