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.

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

Granted, Python is certainly not perfect. No language is. “Due to its interpreted nature, Python does not have the most efficient runtime performance,” said Story.

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.

Why making Python faster isn’t easy Python’s performance has little to do with being an interpreted language, as opposed to one compiled ahead of time to native machine code.

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 ...

How a team that includes Python creator Guido van Rossum are helping to add new elements to the popular Python programming language.