Python, the number one programming language in the TIOBE Programming Language Community Index in August, has further solidified its place at the top.

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.

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