Guido Van Rossum, a computer programmer in the Netherlands, created Python. He started it in 1989 at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), initially as a hobby project to stay busy during Christmastime. The name for the language was inspired by the BBC TV show Monty Python’s Flying Circus because Guido Van Rossum was a big fan of the show.
History of Python releases
Guido Van Rossum published the first version of the Python code (version 0.9.0) in 1991. It already included good features such as some data types and functions for error handling.
Python 1.0 was released in 1994 with new functions to easily process a list of data, such as map, filter, and reduce.
Python 2.0 was released on October 16, 2000, with new useful features for programmers, such as support for Unicode characters and a shorter way to loop through a list.
On December 3, 2008, Python 3.0 was released. It included features such as the print function and more support for number division and error handling.