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Python is incredibly popular because it's easy to learn, versatile, and has thousands of useful libraries for data science. But one thing it is not is fast. That's about to change in Python 3.11, ...

Sitting around with "a lot of time on my hand," Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language ...