Interestingly, in some cases the Python code in the source distribution differs from the built distribution. The former is clean, while the latter contains the malicious code.

Flojoy wants to bring no-code Python testing to industrial instruments to test and capture data in an automated way.

Positron is Posit's new, free IDE for data science. Users can work with Python and R. It explicitly does not replace RStudio.

Pyston 2.2 yields a roughly 30% speed improvement over standard CPython, and the software is now available under an open source license. Pyston, an alternate version of the Python runtime ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new Python Environments extension in VS Code, now reaching 20% of stable channel users. The tool ...

Google open-sources Atheris, a tool for finding security bugs in Python code Atheris helps developers find bugs in Python-based codebases using a technique called fuzzing.

A 15-year-old vulnerability in the open source Python programming language is still finding its way into live code, with the result that over 350,000 projects are at risk of potential supply chain ...

In the first half of 2020, Pysa detected 44% of all security bugs in Instagram's server-side Python code.