The History of Python

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

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,...