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Emma Smith and Kirill Podoprigora, two of Python's core developers, have opened a discussion about including Rust code in CPython, the reference implementation of the Python programming language.

PEP 703 ("Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython") was posted back in January, then revised in May. It proposes creating a second build of CPython using a new build configuration ...

Python is incredibly popular because it’s easy to learn, versatile, and has thousands of useful libraries for data science. But one thing it is not is fast. That’s about to change in Python 3.11, ...

On October 25, 2022, Python 3.11 stable was released. Python 3.11 is on average 1.25x faster than 3.10 due to the introduction of Faster CPython. Faster CPython is a Python acceleration project ...

A new open source Microsoft project, Pyjion, improves the Python language’s speed by augmenting its stock interpreter with a JIT derived from Microsoft’s CoreCLR project. Python’s standard-issue ...

Formal plans for a Python that supports true parallelism are finally on the table. Here’s how a GIL-free Python will finally come together. After much debate, the Python Steering Council intends to ...