The History of Python

List comprehensions were added in Python 2.0. This feature originated as a set of patches by Greg Ewing with contributions by Skip Montanaro...

In languages that use multiple inheritance, the order in which base classes are searched when looking for a method is often called the Metho...

The antigravity module, referencing the XKCD comic mentioning Python , was added to Python 3 by Skip Montanaro. You can read more about it h...

Barry Warsaw posted an interesting blog that tells an obscure part of Python history (the kind I like to keep alive): http://www.wefearchang...

[Warning, this post is long and gets very technical.] On the surface, new-style classes appear very similar to the original class implementa...

[After a long hiatus, this blog series is back! I will continue where I left off last year. I'll try to keep the frequency up.] Earlier,...

In Python’s original implementation, classes were first class objects that could be manipulated just like any other object. However, the ...