But in many cases, it doesn’t have to be an either/or proposition. Properly optimized, Python applications can run with surprising speed—perhaps not as fast as Java or C, but fast enough for web ...

Python 3.15 is expected to speed up some programs and simplifies handling immutable data. UTF-8 as standard requires testing.

It it now time to look at grouping bits together to form bytes. Python is unusual in that it can represent a bit pattern of arbitrary length using its bignum data type. Most other languages have to ...