The hard-to-quantify rise of package downloads for Python spell out the story of AI diffusion, if you know where to look.

PyPI is popular among Python programmers for sharing and downloading code. Since anyone can contribute to the repository, malware – sometimes posing as legitimate, popular code libraries – can appear ...

Modern Python developers use virtual environments (venvs), to keep their projects and dependencies separate. Managing project dependencies gets more complex as the number of dependencies grows.

With a July update, the Python package manager will finally allow users to install only the dependencies for a project, without having to install the project itself.