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.

Mike Kimmel had been hunting for nine hours with nothing to show for it early Monday morning when he spied the Burmese python on a levee. Unremarkable in size at just 7 feet, the invasive snake was… ...

A slow Python program isn’t necessarily fated to be forever slow. Many Python programs are slow because they don’t properly use the functionality in Python or its standard library.

Most importantly, Python fails to achieve what was the actual goal: Define a program with a single, well-defined entry point. Python simply can’t do that, as the existence of the cryptic name equals ...