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 .

An initiative to remove outdated and unmaintained modules from Python’s standard library has been approved as Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 594.The modules being pruned are all antiquated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

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

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 ...