(Thanks to Google Groups; suggestions welcome.)
2001 Jun 16: Python 2.0.1’s GPL-compatibility is official! Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen and the FSF agree.
2001 Jan 29: Mark Pilgrim: I am writing a free book on Python.
2000 Oct 16: Python 2.0 final release is out! I thank my colleagues at BeOpen PythonLabs and the many volunteers in the Python developer community…
2000 Apr 18: Stephen Figgins: Re: o’rielly [sic] python devcenter. It isn’t old news, it just went public last night.
2000 Jan 17: Python version history, from 0.9 to 1.5.1.
1999 Dec 7: Alex Martelli: I’d really like to do my scripting in Python instead [of Perl] (for reasons I’m sure I don’t have to explain on this newsgroup!-)
1998 Dec 15: Oleg Broytmann: Programmers don’t die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
1998 Dec 4: Paul Everitt: Bobo has merged with our Principia and Aqueduct products to become the “Z Object Publishing Environment”, aka Zope. The first source release is tomorrow.
1997 Feb 7: Cameron Laird: C-codings also *do* much less than superficially comparable Python applications, precisely because memory management and such occupy some large percentage of a C programmer’s consciousness.
1997 Jan 23: Martin von Loewis and Nils Fischbeck proudly announce Das Python-Buch, a German book about the great Python language.
1996 Oct 11: Paul Everitt: Hope to see you at the workshop.. (countdown to Bobo…)
1996 Aug 21: Mark Lutz: Programming Python, Object-Oriented Scripting, By Mark Lutz, O’Reilly and Associates. 1st edition September 1996 (est.). 900 pages (est.)
1995 Jun 22: Fredrik Lundh: Python is everywhere.
1995 Apr 21: Fred L. Drake: I’ll be doing my Masters project this summer, and am considering using Python as my implementation language.
1994 Dec 1: Mark Hammond: I have been working on an MS Windows layer for Python.
1994 Mar 31: Tim Peters. an-argument-is-a-connected- series-of-statements-intended-to- establish-a-proposition-ly y’rs
1994 Mar 28: Earliest archived post on comp.lang.python. I love to post my first message to a group that I have waited anxiously for.
1993 Dec 26: comp.lang.python FAQ There is no Python newsgroup yet; if you want to post to the net about Python, use comp.lang.misc.
1992 May 22: Python 0.9.6 now available for MS-DOS. If you don’t know yet what Python is: it’s an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. (Yes, I’m trying to compete with lisp, perl and tcl here!)
1991 Feb 25: Python mode for Emacs. Posted, in its entirety, to gnu.emacs.sources.
1991 Feb 20: Python 0.9.1 part 01/21. The entire Python source code — actually an installer (via sh) — was posted to alt.sources. Including documentation. In uncompressed plain text. In 21 parts.
1991 Feb 20: Guido announces Python. This is Python, an extensible interpreted programming language that combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. This is version 0.9 (the first beta release), patchlevel 1.
