The language design used elements from several other programming languages, including ABC, Modula-3, C, and others, to produce a flexible and expressive syntax. Python 2 vs. Python 3 ...

IN DECEMBER 1989 Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist, set himself a Christmas project. Irked by shortcomings in other programming languages, he wanted to build his own. His principles ...

Guido van Rossum, the creator of the hugely popular Python programming language, has given his thoughts on the language for the browser, mobile devices, and upcoming rivals like Julia. Van Rossum ...

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.

Python 3.11 will bear the fruits of CPython's multi-year effort to make Python a faster programming language. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer. Contributing Writer.