Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

Powerful, flexible, and programmer-friendly, Python is widely used for everything from web development to machine learning. By the two most-cited measures, Python has even surpassed the likes of Java ...

A new project, written in Rust, aims to make it easier to package and distribute a Python application as a standalone binary executable—something that has long been a pain point for Python developers.