Finally, a book good enough to be both a textbook and a reference on the Python language now exists. Part of Prentice Hall's PTR Core Series, this book works well as a first Python textbook for ...

Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster languages ...

Python 2.2 made its debut at the end of 2001, and its first bug-fix version 2.2.1 was recently released from the core developers at PythonLabs. The 2.2.x family is full of new features and ...

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