Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python's past and explores what's next.

Python, an object-oriented and interpreted language "gains much of its power from a large constellation of libraries, including popular modules for machine learning and scientific computing ...

As part of our mini-series on programming languages, Dolly Setton makes the case for Python being the best language for data journalism and our team shares their tips for getting started with it.

Python, the number one programming language in the TIOBE Programming Language Community Index in August, has further solidified its place at the top.

This post offers a comprehensive Python beginner's guide that explains everything newcomers need to know about the language.

Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster ...

Python is an interpreted language by default: CPython does not translate the source code into machine code, but only into bytecode, which the Python interpreter interprets at runtime.