What is unique about Python?

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    >> > that's not really what I'm looking for.  So I'm wondering, what is
    >> > innovative about Python, 

    >> The letter 'y'.  Before Python, it was woefully underused in the
    >> names of programming languages...

    Roy> Yacc has been around for a long time.

Sure, but it's capitalized there.  Python innovated the use of lower-case
'y'.

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