An initiative to remove outdated and unmaintained modules from Python’s standard library has been approved as Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 594.The modules being pruned are all antiquated ...

Python’s development team chose defaults that reflect the most common real-world scenarios. But if you do need to tweak the way garbage collection works, you can use Python’s gc module .

Python 3.3 standard library 'ipaddress' suffers from a critical IP address vulnerability (CVE-2021-29921) identical to the flaw that was reported in the "netmask" library earlier this year.

You will want to become familiar with Purdue’s library services. Below is a list for where to find information, and how to ask the librarian for assistance. They are here to help you! Purdue’s library ...

This time around, the backdoor was found in a Python module, and not an npm (JavaScript) package. Barely a week has passed from the last attempt to hide a backdoor in a code library, and we have a ...

Devs unknowingly use “malicious” modules snuck into official Python repository Code packages available in PyPI contained modified installation scripts.

The answer is somewhere in the middle. The Python standard library comes with "multiprocessing", a module that gives the feeling of working with threads, but that actually works with processes. So in ...

A source package is also provided for other platforms/Python versions. If building the module from sources, a local installation of the C++ API is required for both building and importing the ...