Every Python developer knows some or all of these libraries, because they’re stable, reliable, and excellent at what they do.

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Startup Rylo raises USD 85m, gets FCC approval for app that helps deaf and hard-of-hearing people make phone calls.

In context: Most modern games are designed for a global audience, often including English localization, a sharp contrast to older releases that remained Japan-only. Some hidden Japanese gems still ...

The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...

On June 11, 2025, the Python core team released Python 3.13.5, the fifth maintenance update to the 3.13 line. This release is not about flashy new language features, instead, it addresses some ...

Want to make a Python user grind their teeth? Just recite three words: Python is slow. In many of the ways that matter, it’s true. “Pure” Python, without external libraries written in C, is nowhere ...

Ian McEwan’s “Machines like me” presents a scenario where androids demonstrate a limited understanding of the world. In this study, we feed the content of “Machines like me” novel into a chatbot ...

Serving tens of millions of developers, Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code shipped a new release with three major new features, including a "full" language server mode for Pylance, ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...