Microsoft has released a new version of its hit Python extension for its cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that makes its Pylance language server the default. Microsoft started ...

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.

Python is arguably the most popular programming language in the world thanks to machine learning, but its big weakness is performance: it needs high-end hardware, often leans on graphics cards, ...