The History of Python

Guido van Rossum's blog about the history of Python (2009–2013). Originally hosted on python-history.blogspot.com.

A series of articles on the history of the Python programming language and its community.

Posts

The origins of pgen — May 12, 2018
The history of bool, True and False — November 11, 2013
The story of None, True and False (and an explanation of literals, keywords and builtins thrown in) — November 10, 2013 (16 comments)
Origin of metaclasses in Python — October 24, 2013 (1 comments)
Why Python uses 0-based indexing — October 24, 2013 (15 comments)
Karin Dewar, Indentation and the Colon — July 08, 2011 (7 comments)
Why Python's Integer Division Floors — August 24, 2010 (18 comments)
From List Comprehensions to Generator Expressions — June 29, 2010 (10 comments)
Method Resolution Order — June 23, 2010 (10 comments)
import antigravity — June 21, 2010 (2 comments)
import this and The Zen of Python — June 21, 2010 (1 comments)
The Inside Story on New-Style Classes — June 21, 2010 (9 comments)
New-style Classes — June 21, 2010 (3 comments)
Metaclasses and Extension Classes (a.k.a. “The Killer Joke”) — April 24, 2009 (3 comments)
New! Now in Japanese! — April 23, 2009 (5 comments)
And the Snake Attacks (Guest post by Greg Stein) — April 22, 2009
Origins of Python's "Functional" Features — April 21, 2009 (21 comments)
The Great (or Grand) Renaming — March 31, 2009 (1 comments)
Dynamically Loaded Modules — March 17, 2009 (4 comments)
The Problem with Integer Division — March 10, 2009 (13 comments)
How Exceptions Came to be Classes — March 06, 2009 (6 comments)
How Everything Became an Executable Statement — March 03, 2009
First-class Everything — February 27, 2009 (3 comments)
Adding Support for User-defined Classes — February 18, 2009 (8 comments)
Python's Use of Dynamic Typing — February 10, 2009 (6 comments)
Early Language Design and Development — February 03, 2009 (10 comments)
Microsoft Ships Python Code... in 1996 — January 28, 2009 (5 comments)
Personal History - part 2, CNRI and beyond — January 27, 2009 (6 comments)
Personal History - part 1, CWI — January 20, 2009 (13 comments)
A Brief Timeline of Python — January 20, 2009 (6 comments)
Python's Design Philosophy — January 13, 2009 (19 comments)
Introduction and Overview — January 13, 2009 (18 comments)

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