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Python falls short in a few areas. For instance, Python isn’t the fastest language around, but third-party libraries like NumPy let you work around that. Where Python is most deficient, though, is ...

On October 25, 2022, Python 3.11 stable was released. Python 3.11 is on average 1.25x faster than 3.10 due to the introduction of Faster CPython. Faster CPython is a Python acceleration project ...