Python is best thought of as a dynamic but strongly typed language. Types aren’t associated with the names of things, but with the things themselves. This makes Python flexible and convenient for ...

There are moves to bring strong typing into Python and it isn’t a bad idea, but you need to understand type and its role in programming to make good use of it, or to decide if it is essential or ...

Proposals have turned into major language changes for Java lately, and Python is poised to follow suit. Programmer Guido van Rossum, author of the Python programming language, published a proposal on ...

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Python's static-typing feature has come a long way since it was introduced in 2014. Adding type information to functions has always been—and will remain—optional, but typing still remains somewhat ...

Using strings with contents that are supplied by users can be fraught with peril; SQL injection is a well-known technique for attacking applications that stems from that, for example. Generally, ...

What is most striking about Python’s latest wave of third-party tooling is that they aren’t written in Python. Instead, many of the newer tools for project management, code formatting, and now type ...

Python Summit has gone virtual for obvious reasons. There are lots of interesting talks, but the one that piqued my interest was on the gradual addition of gradual typing to Python. I was going to ...