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 ...

Python is critically important to both Google Cloud and, therefore, to users of Google Cloud, and is also used by the search engine giant internally to power many of its core products and services ...

It's been a leap-ahead year for Python—bringing on more speed, less cruft, and a large and growing user base.