For some packages, Python will need a C compiler to build certain modules when those modules aren’t provided in binary format. Cython, which translates Python into C code, needs a C compiler to ...

The access token belonged to the Python Software Foundation’s director of infrastructure and was accidentally included in a compiled binary file ... tokens have a new format that includes ...

That is, Python lacks a consistent internal mechanism for generating a standalone binary from an application ... OSes it supports by way of a common format for apps on that platform: To deploy ...

Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and the engineers on the WebKit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web.