Guido van Rossum, creator and lead developer of the Python programming language, announced in a mailing list post on Monday that the project will be adopting Mercurial (Hg), a high-performance DVCS.

Python is a high-level language, so it’s not suitable for system-level programming—device drivers or OS kernels are out of the picture. It’s also not ideal for situations that call for cross ...

With Python 3.11, a number of allied projects got underway to improve Python’s performance by leaps and bounds with each new version. The performance improvements in Python 3.12 aren’t as ...

Whether transitioning from biostatistics, software engineering or a broader STEM field, developing programming expertise—especially in the Statistical Analysis System (SAS), R, Python ...

But even when you're using lots of I/O, you might prefer to take full advantage of a multicore system. And in the world of Python, that means using processes. In my article "Launching External ...