After months of silence, the Pyston project — a Dropbox-sponsored initiative to create a high-performance, JIT-compiling Python runtime — has announced a new version. The bad news: Pyston 0.5 is ...

A new feature proposal for the Python programming language wants to add "transparency" to the runtime and let security and auditing tools view when Python may be running potentially dangerous ...

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MotherDuck is launching Flights, an agent-native data pipeline that enables users to choose the MCP server and AI agent of their choice to build and deploy data pipelines in minutes using a flexible, ...

Python's if name equals main construct provides a standard entry point to run scripts and standalone apps. Python has become a popular programming language due largely to its highly readable syntax ...