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.

What is said to be the first trojan targeting the Python programming language has been discovered. The Trojan, Python.Pytroj, infected .pyc Python files with arbitrary code and was discovered in a ...

Security researchers at ReversingLabs have discovered a novel attack that used compiled Python code to evade detection. According to ReversingLabs reverse engineer Karlo Zanki, this could be the first ...

Scrubbing tokens from source code is not enough, as shown by the publishing of a Python Software Foundation access token with administrator privileges to a container image on Docker Hub. A personal ...

Python 3.13 has been released with a slight delay on the home straight. The new interactive shell aims to make development more convenient. In addition, the global interpreter lock can now be ...