Near an enchanted forest on a tiny island in the middle of Uganda’s Lake Victoria, live the last remaining guardians of a spirit that takes the form of a python. Legend has it that hundreds of ...

Bugala Island is home to Luwala, the python spirit (Credit: Bryan Kisembo Delon) Finding Bugala was easy: a ferry crossing of a few hours from Entebbe and I was standing on the island pier.

The Python Software Foundation has appointed a new Developer in Residence (DIR) to work full-time on the Python programming language and support its developer community.