The History of Python

David Beazley's talk at US PyCon 2018, about parser generators, reminded me I should write a bit about its history. Here's a brief b...

Writing up the reasons why True and False, when introduced, weren't reserved words, I realized there's another interesting lesson in...

I received an interesting question in the mail recently: What is the difference between keywords and literals? Why are True and False keyw...

There was some speculation on python-ideas today on whether Python's metaclass design came from Ruby. It did not. And as long as we are...

I was asked on Twitter why Python uses 0-based indexing, with a link to a new (fascinating) post on the subject ( http://exple.tive.org/blar...

In a recent post on my other blog I mentioned a second-hand story about how Python's indentation was invented by the wife of Robert Dew...

I was asked (again) today to explain why integer division in Python returns the floor of the result instead of truncating towards zero like...