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Granted, Python is certainly not perfect. No language is. “Due to its interpreted nature, Python does not have the most efficient runtime performance,” said Story.

While Python is still a dynamically typed language, in 2015, Python 3.5 gained support for Type Hints, which allow developers to include annotations that can be scrutinized by a type checker like ...

Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python's past and explores what's next.

Python will not replace C and C++, which are “lower-level options” that give the user more control over what is going on in a computer’s processor.