Bleeping Computer

Python Package Installation Can Trigger Malicious Code

Although there is nothing special about code executing on a machine, the moment when this code is executed is a significant detail from a security standpoint. The Python programming language allows ...
InfoWorld

Creating a pip install-able Python package

It's not hard to write a Python package that can be installed into an interpreter or virtual environment with pip. This video shows a simple example of how to lay out a project's source code and set ...
ZDNet

Microsoft's Python extension for VS Code just added the fast-coding Pylance language server

Microsoft has released a new version of its hit Python extension for its cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that makes its Pylance language server the default. Microsoft started ...
Bleeping Computer

Python 3.7 Is Now Available in the Microsoft Store for Windows 10

Last month the Python Software Foundation quietly published Python 3.7 in the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 devices. The Microsoft Store version of Python 3.7 is a simplified installer for running ...
ZDNet

Twelve malicious Python libraries found and removed from PyPI

A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code. The 12 packages have been discovered in two separate ...