Notes on The Python Programming Language

1. Python was invented by Guido Van Rossum in 1990.
2. At the time, Guido was working on the Amoeba distributed operating system. Python was to be the scripting language for this OS.
3. Python was influenced by the teaching language ABC (on which Guido had worked) as well as many other programming languages.
4. It was named after Monty Python, because of Guido's great love for Flying Circus and other Python productions.
5. The first public release was in 1991.
6. The comp.lang.python usenet group founded in 1994.
7. Python was free as in speech from the beginning.

See Andrew Thanalertvisuti's Honors Project [ python.html ] on the syntax of Python.

Data Model

Demonstrations and Examples of Python

[ python-for-math-teachers.html ]

Comparisons and Introductions

Language of the month: [ http://www.scdi.org/languages/python/ ]

Evaluation of Features [ Python.html ]

Python Home Page and Newsgroup

home: [ http://www.python.org/ ]

newsgroup comp.lang.python

Language Reference Manual

[ ref.html ]

Python as a First Language

John M. Zelle Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics Wartburg College Waverly, IA 50677 [ jz.htm ] zelle@wartburg.edu

Programming Python Book

Language Changes [ errata-python-changes.html ]

Copies of Manuals

[ python.html ] [ Python.html ] [ Python.html ]

Bibliographies

[ python.html ]

Extensions

ParaPython: a PARI interface to the Python programming language Stefane Fermigier, Universite Paris 7 [ readme.html ]

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Notes

(Note1): The languages OCCAM and CODIL also used indentation in a similar way.

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