The History of Python
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A series of articles on the history of the Python programming language and its community.
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The History of Python: A Brief Timeline of Python
The development of Python occurred at a time when many other dynamic (and open-source) programming languages such as Tcl, Perl, and (much la...
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The History of Python: First-class Everything
[Folks, please don't use the comments section of this blog to ask questions. If you want to suggest a topic for a future blog entry, send me...
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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 brain dump (maybe I'll expand later)
There are actually two pgens. The original, in C, and a rewrite in Python, under lib2to3/pgen2.... -
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The history of bool, True and False
Writing up the reasons why True and False, when introduced, weren't reserved words, I realized there's another interesting lesson in the history of Python's bool type. It was formally introduced in Python 2.3, as a new type with two constants, and the...
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The story of None, True and False (and an explanation of literals, keywords and ...
I received an interesting question in the mail recently:
What is the difference between keywords and literals? Why are True and False keywords rather than literals in python3?
I was horrified recently to find that assigning to True/False works in python2. So I went digging, and found that True and False were created to be 'constants' like None in PEP 285. Assignment to None was disallowed in 2.4, but not to True/False until... -
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Origin of metaclasses in Python
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 speculating about the origins of language features, I feel the need to set the record straight.
I was not inspired by Ruby at that point (or ever :-). Ruby was in fact inspired by Python. Mats once told me that his inspiration was 20% Python, 80% Perl, and that Larry Wall is his hero....
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