What is Python?

[Erik Max Francis]

Rainer Deyke wrote:

> Totally unrelated rhetorical question: When one says "It is raining",
> to
> what is the "it" refering?

It's a placeholder; it doesn't refer to anything specific.  In several
languages, this kind of construct isn't allowed.

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