This page documents the few differences and incompatibilities between the PyPy Python interpreter and CPython. Some of these differences are "by design", since we think that there are cases in which ...

Summit received numerous topic proposals from Python core developers as well as from members of the wider Python community, all are very interesting and important. The next version of the standard ...

This issue is to discuss and keep track of progress on support for the experimental free-threading build of CPython at a high level. CPython has historically been using a Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) ...

The upcoming release of Python 3.11 focuses on performance. Improvements will be realized by the Faster CPython project. The release notes of the upcoming version indicate drastic performance ...

Abstract: In this paper, the performance research on CPython's latest interpreter is presented, concluding that bytecode dispatching takes about 25 percent of total execution time on average. Based on ...

Python, one of the world's most popular programming languages, may soon become even more ubiquitous as it finds a home within web browsers. Ethan Smith, a Berkeley-based software developer, recently ...