Python: Come for the language, stay for the community

Python: Come for the language, stay for the community

Ryan welcomes Paul Everitt, developer advocate at JetBrains and an early adopter of Python, to discuss the history, growth, and future of Python. They cover Python’s pivotal moments and rise alongside the internet, the increased adoption from transitions like Python 2 to Python 3, and the significant role Python plays in academia and data science today.

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Python is the fourth most-popular language in our 2025 Developer Survey.

From the archives: Why is the migration to Python 3 taking so long?

Today we’re shouting out a popular Python question, Fastest way to find the least amount of subsets that sum up to the total set in Python, asked by user Shaun Han.

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