Tag: python

September 13, 2023

Python is long on convenience and programmer-friendly, but it isn’t the fastest programming language around. Some of Python’s speed limitations are due to its default implementation, CPython, being single-threaded. That is, CPython doesn’t use more than one hardware thread at […]

August 22, 2023

Microsoft’s Stefan Kinnestrand announced today that Microsoft Excel will officially support Python integration. This will be accomplished via a partnership with Anaconda which brings a huge repository with common libraries like statsmodels, Matplotlib and pandas. The new Python integration is […]

June 15, 2023

For the 11th consecutive year, web development staple JavaScript was the most commonly used programming language among developers participating in Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey. JavaScript was also the language that most developers surveyed desire, or want to use, followed […]

December 28, 2022

You hear the word AI everywhere you go. It has influenced all spheres of life and all domains of business. No wonder AI is now capable of writing computer code. This is indeed bad news for developers, who may lose […]

December 13, 2022

An active malware campaign is targeting the Python Package Index (PyPI) and npm repositories for Python and JavaScript with typosquatted and fake modules that deploy a ransomware strain, marking the latest security issue to affect software supply chains. The typosquatted […]

November 14, 2022

When it comes to the programming language skills employers want most, HackerRank has found a handful of languages bunched at the top of the list, including Java, Python, and SQL. Demand for others, such as Go and TypeScript, is growing […]

August 15, 2022

Threat actors have been using typosquatting to attack Python developers(opens in new tab) with malware, researchers have claimed. Experts from Spectralops.io recently analyzed PyPI, a software repository for Python programmers, and found ten malicious packages on the platform. All of […]

July 29, 2022

It’s funny how some of the simplest software development decisions turn out to also be the toughest. One example is choosing the configuration file format for your application or service. Both JSON and YAML come to mind, of course. But […]

April 13, 2022

Python’s explosive growth over the last decade has shown the world it’s a powerful and flexible way to accomplish very nearly anything you want to do in computing. It’s also clear that Python still has a few painful shortcomings that […]

February 1, 2022

Programming languages are one of the most important tools in the DevOps arsenal. Choosing the right programming language or languages for your application is essential for succeeding at DevOps and achieving continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD). Given that there are hundreds […]

January 31, 2022

Google is extending differential privacy capabilities to the Python language, with an open source tool, called PipelineDP, for creating pipelines that aggregate data containing personal information in a way that preserves the privacy of individuals. The tool allows data engineers […]

January 26, 2022

Although Python turned 30 years old last year (2021), only in the last few years has it enjoyed the great explosion of adoption, growth, and forward-thinking development that we’ve come to associate with the language. Many features of Python have […]

December 8, 2021

Django 4.0 has just been released, centering on capabilities in database caching and forms customization for the Python web framework. A new Redis cache back end offers built-in support for caching with the Redis in-memory database. Users will need a […]

September 16, 2021

If you program in Python, you have most likely encountered situations where you wanted to speed up some operation by executing multiple tasks in parallel or by interleaving between multiple tasks. Python has mechanisms for taking both of these approaches, […]

September 7, 2021

Microsoft has updated the Python extension for its Visual Studio Code integrated development environment (IDE) to introduce support for editing in the web browser, thanks to the new Python language server, Pylance. “We are delighted to announce that as of […]

August 16, 2021

Looking to pursue a career as a data scientist? This is a field that many people are interested in because the job prospects are so good, with data playing such a pivotal role in modern-day business. Data scientists can benefit […]

February 16, 2021

Google Cloud has donated $350,000 to the Python Software Foundation, with the goals of aiding CPython development, improving foundational Python tools, and beefing up the security of the Python package ecosystem. Three specific projects will be supported by the donation, […]

January 25, 2021

There’s no question that Python is hugely popular with software developers, or that its popularity continues to rise. TIOBE, a software company that publishes a measure of the popularity of programming languages every month, reported in November that Python had […]

January 5, 2021

For the fourth time, Python has won Tiobe’s programming language of the year award, given to the language gaining the most popularity in one year. In winning the designation for 2020, Python jumped 2.01 percentage points last year in the […]

July 2, 2020

Microsoft has pulled back the drapes on Pylance, a Visual Studio Code extension for faster and more complete Python language support in that popular code editor. Pylance doesn’t replace the existing Microsoft-authored Python extension for Visual Studio Code, which has […]