For one, there is no native mechanism for compiling a Python program into a standalone executable package. To be fair, the original use case for Python never called for standalone redistributables.

The PyPI package flood is just the latest in a string of attacks on public repositories with the intent to plant malicious code. Over the weekend an attacker has been uploading thousands of ...

It comes pre-installed in the majority of the Python versions such as Python 3.4 and later & Python 2.7.9 and later. So, if someday, you want to uninstall the Python package and its dependencies ...

PyPI is popular among Python programmers for sharing and downloading code. Since anyone can contribute to the repository, malware – sometimes posing as legitimate, popular code libraries – can ...

Using Python’s index operator [] on a string with a -3 will grab the 3rd character from the end of the string, in this case '<built-in function oct>'[-3] will evaluate to 'c'.

The Python Package Index, home to over 450,000 projects, plays a crucial role in the software supply chain, constituting an estimated 90% of code run in production. Forbes said the research ...