The “pip” command with the “list” method will print a list of all centrally and locally installed PyPI packages and their versions. Because most of our packages are installed this way, this is the ...

A debate about Python modules—and where and how they are hosted—raged in early May on two separate Python mailing lists. There are a number of interrelated issues that make up the debate, but the core ...

PyPI is popular among Python programmers for sharing and downloading code. Since anyone can contribute to the repository, malware – sometimes posing as legitimate, popular code libraries – can appear ...

The official repository for the widely used Python programming language has been tainted with modified code packages, a computer security authority in Slovakia warned. The authority also said the ...

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 ...

The switch to Python 3 has been long—and is certainly far from over—but progress is being made in the form of Linux distributions that are switching their default. There are a number of high-profile ...

Introducing Anaconda, a Python distribution for scientific research. I've looked at several ways you could use Python to do scientific calculations in the past, but I've never actually covered how to ...

Although there is nothing special about code executing on a machine, the moment when this code is executed is a significant detail from a security standpoint. The Python programming language allows ...

The “pip” command with the “list” method will print a list of all centrally and locally installed PyPI packages and their versions. Because most of our packages are installed this way, this is the ...