The latest update to PyPy (5.6), the just-in-time compiling runtime for Python, supplies the usual roster of bug fixes and incremental improvements. Its biggest changes, though, involve a ...

Long in development, the new major release of the Python-to-C compiler sheds legacy Python support and readies Cython developers for big changes in Python. The main goal behind Cython is to make it ...

We listed the best VS extensions for JS developers. Now it’s time we do so for the Python community. I’m a PyCharm user and I won’t probably be changing editors anytime soon, but with all the hype ...

Since Microsoft went all in on Python for its open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor years ago, the company has steadily been adding new features, tools and functionality, including a ...

When you're trying to get the best performance out of Python, most developers immediately jump to complex algorithmic fixes, using C extensions, or obsessively running profiling tools. However, one of ...