Optimized apps and websites start with well-built code. The truth, however, is that you don't need to worry about performance in 90% of your code, and probably 100% for many scripts. It doesn't matter ...

Python often gets a bad rap in terms of performance. Critics often move the goal posts mid-discussion, either unintentionally or simply to get a rise out of Python developers. Here's a typical ...

Spiffy and convenient as Python is, most everyone who uses the language knows it’s comparatively creaky—orders of magnitude slower than C, Java, or JavaScript for CPU-intensive work. But several ...

One of the big surprises of the past few years has been the spectacular rise in the use of Python* in high-performance computing applications. With the latest releases of Intel® Distribution for ...

Better error messages, support for Linux profiling tools, and many improvements to Python's type hinting have just landed. Let's take a look. The Python programming ...

Programming languages: Why Python 4.0 might never arrive, according to its creator Your email has been sent In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to ...