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.

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.

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 ...

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.