Python appears to be everywhere nowadays! How did it happen, that a language that almost died in the Python 2 to 3 process is now the lingua franca a default choice when people talk about programming? There must be some secret superpower and I think I found it!

So far, I’ve held it at PyCon UK 2025 in Manchester, UK.

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Python's True Superpower

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