Want to make a Python user grind their teeth? Just recite three words: Python is slow. In many of the ways that matter, it’s true. “Pure” Python, without external libraries written in C, is nowhere ...

Python programs are set to get faster startup times with PEP 810 "Explicit lazy imports," which allows scripts to defer loading imported libraries until they're actually needed rather than at startup.

Python’s packaging ecosystem is under growing strain as development teams move away from pip in production environments, citing performance bottlenecks, fragile dependency resolution and rising ...