Credit: O'Reilly Media. In a report released by O'Reilly Media today, Python is the top search term on the company's learning platform for the full 2019 calendar year, and it's the #1 programming ...

Once you have learned your way around Python and want to make your programming useful, I recommend that you pick up the O’Reilly book Programming Python by Mark Lutz, now in its second edition.

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.

It took the programming community a couple of decades to appreciate Python. But since the early 2010’s, it has been booming — and eventually surpassing C, C#, Java and JavaScript in popularity ...

Python is a high-level language, so it’s not suitable for system-level programming—device drivers or OS kernels are out of the picture. It’s also not ideal for situations that call for cross ...