Instead of a hardware module costing tens of thousands of dollars, [Stefan]’s only cost the price of an Arduino Due; not too shabby for a hardware security module that can sign more than 2000 ...

Others can then use the "pip" tool to install your program from your wheel file, which can include binary components (like Python extension modules written in C).

Ewa Jodlowska, the Python Software Foundation's outgoing executive director, says Python 'will go down in history' - but there is still plenty of work to be done.

Neptyne, a startup building a Python-powered spreadsheet platform, has raised $2 million in a pre-seed venture round.