Thomas Kika is a Newsweek weekend reporter based in upstate New York. His focus is reporting on crime and national politics. In the past, he has also focused on things like business, technology, and ...

A faster interpreter, more intelligible errors, more powerful type hints, and a slew of other speedups and tweaks are now ready to try out. The Python programming language releases new versions yearly ...

When Onya Lee-Golightly, 16, heard that a snake slithered into a backyard in her South Florida neighborhood, she knew she had to help. The animal and reptile enthusiast was first alerted of the snake ...

On October 25, 2022, Python 3.11 stable was released. Python 3.11 is on average 1.25x faster than 3.10 due to the introduction of Faster CPython. Faster CPython is a Python acceleration project ...

It was a scaly encounter. A UK grandfather had to fight off an 11-foot-long python after it slithered through a window into his home. Rob Byrne, 61, of Bishopstoke, suffered minor injuries after ...

An extensive survey of around 30,000 developers has revealed Python is still a preferred language for many programmers, with ...

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has released three new versions of popular programming language Python in what has been a bumpy start to 2022, but Core Python developers are making progress ...

More than 900 people participated in the 2025 Python Challenge, a 10-day hunt in the steamy South Florida heat that this year made history on two fronts, with the first woman to win the grand prize ...

The invasive Burmese python slithering around the Everglades, and now in some other places in Florida, is starting to give the alligator a run for its money when it comes to the number of jaw-dropping ...