That could happen thanks to BeeWare, an open-source project headed up Russell Keith-Magee, which is porting CPython to Android, so apps written in Python can run natively on Android.

Programming languages: Python rides high but Groovy is cool again with developers Groovy sees a jump in popularity after years on the periphery of Tiobe's top 50 programming-language rankings.

If you did want to get a better understanding of what it means to code in an object oriented programming language though, then I would actually recommend having a little play with Python.

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.

It took the programming community a couple of decades to appreciate Python. But since the early 2010’s, it has been booming — and eventually surpassing C, C#, Java and JavaScript in popularity.

Python is the fastest-growing programming language in the world. Here's why it's a good choice for those who want to learn to code.

The Scripting Layer for Android is one of the many projects to see life as a direct result of Google's policy of allocating 20% of its employees' time to “pet projects”. Damon Kohler works for Google, ...

Toolbox Published: 04 February 2015 Programming: Pick up Python Jeffrey M. Perkel Nature 518, 125–126 (2015) Cite this article ...