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Python 2 will reach end-of-life by 2020

Python 2 will reach end-of-life by 2020

The Python Software Foundation has announced that Python 2.0 will end on the 1st of January in 2020. The programming language was introduced in 2000. Six years later, it was succeeded by Python 3.0. However, version 2.0 was still widely used by developers. The two programming languages existed s... Read more

date5 years ago
Programming language Python available in Azure Functions

Programming language Python available in Azure Functions

Azure Functions 2.0 now supports the Python 3.6 programming language. The support for Python on Microsoft's serverless service was announced in a blog post. AWS, a competitor of Microsoft, already had support for Python in Lambda Functions. Now the programming language can also be used for Azure ... Read more

date5 years ago
PyPI removes rogue Python libraries that install backdoors on Linux

PyPI removes rogue Python libraries that install backdoors on Linux

The official Python Package Index (PyPI) has removed three rogue Python libraries. Security company ReversingLabs discovered that the libraries contained a hidden backdoor, which was activated when the libraries were installed on Linux systems. The three packages - libpeshnx, libpesh and libari - we... Read more

date5 years ago
Pyboard D-series now available for MicroPython robots

Pyboard D-series now available for MicroPython robots

Today the new Pyboard D-series for MicroPython robots has been made available. The microcontroller is sold for 56 dollars (49.70 euros) and offers developers a device that requires very little power to run programs. These are programs built with MicroPython, a stripped-down version of the hugely po... Read more

date5 years ago
Apple programming language Swift is steadily gaining popularity

Apple programming language Swift is steadily gaining popularity

Programming language Swift, which allows developers to build apps for iOS, is now one of the top ten most popular programming languages. Python has meanwhile, one month after finishing in the top three, dropped back to fourth place. This is demonstrated by the TIOBE index with the most popular progr... Read more

date5 years ago
Programming language Julia is rapidly becoming more popular.

Programming language Julia is rapidly becoming more popular.

For the first time, Python is in the top three most popular programming languages. Only C and Java are even more popular. According to TIOBE, an institute that maintains an index of the most popular programming languages, Python is becoming increasingly widespread and is the standard choice at unive... Read more

date6 years ago
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