Microsoft has made its Pylance language server the default on the Python extension for Visual Studio Code.

New extension pack bundles wildly popular tools for Python development, assisted by the AI-powered GitHub Copilot and a data wrangler.

Discover the game-changing VS Code extensions that every Python developer needs. Boost productivity, catch errors in real-time, and make coding more intuitive with these must-have tools.

PyPy is a drop-in replacement for the stock Python interpreter, and it runs many times faster on some Python programs.

AI can be 4x quicker at generating code than humans, but it can also inject 10x more security issues, study warns.

Why making Python faster isn’t easy Python’s performance has little to do with being an interpreted language, as opposed to one compiled ahead of time to native machine code.

Python implementation Pyston aims to speed up the programming language's code for web applications. Creator Kevin Modzelewski tells TechRepublic where the project is heading next.

Python 3.11 will bear the fruits of CPython's multi-year effort to make Python a faster programming language.

The popular Python extension for Visual Studio Code is out in a November update that sees it getting smaller, downloading faster, installing quicker and starting up sooner.