In the early days of C, you’d occasionally see someone — probably a former Pascal programmer — write something like this: #define BEGIN { #define END } This would usually initiate complaints about ...

The Python programming language is a hit for data science and machine-learning projects on high-powered hardware, but one of its weaknesses is speed. Anaconda, a company that provides a leading ...

Python programming is everywhere…literally. Whether you’re testing algorithms for Google, launching spacecrafts at NASA, or sitting around chatting with friends on Facebook, Python’s simple, elegant ...

After months of silence, the Pyston project — a Dropbox-sponsored initiative to create a high-performance, JIT-compiling Python runtime — has announced a new version. The bad news: Pyston 0.5 is ...

Incremental improvements are on the way that promise to speed up Python by a factor of 2x to 5x, and remain compatible with existing code. At the Python Language Summit held at PyCon 2021 this week, ...