The History of Python

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...

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