History of python syntax development?

[Chris Rebert]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Ritwik <rana.roy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm doing some work in programming languages and I'm looking for a
> short history of python development, from the point of view of the
> initial development of the syntax. I know I can go through the mailing
> lists and news groups (and I am doing that at the moment), and the
> python history blog has some stuff, but is there anyone who can
> recommend a site/book that has a good description of how the syntax
> was chosen and the arguments for/against some of the basic syntax
> elements. I understand a lot of it was taken from ABC, so if anyone
> has the same info for that language, that would be great too!
>
> Any help would be much appreciated, in the mean time, I must return to
> churning through the mailing lists :)

Most changes since the original basic syntax are documented as PEPs,
which usually contain arguments and analyses of the proposed syntaxes
and which were chosen in the end: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/

Cheers,
Chris

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