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Python

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A. HISTORY OF THE SOFTWARE

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Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting Mathematisch

Centrum (CWI) in the Netherlands as a successor of a language called ABC. Guido is

Python's principal author, although it includes many contributions from others. The last

version released from CWI was Python 1.2. In 1995, Guido continued his work on Python at

the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) in Reston, Virginia where he

released several versions of the software. Python 1.6 was the last of the versions released by

CNRI. In 2000, Guido and the Python core development team moved to BeOpen.com to form

the BeOpen PythonLabs team. Python 2.0 was the first and only release from BeOpen.com.

Following the release of Python 1.6, and after Guido van Rossum left CNRI to work with

commercial software developers, it became clear that the ability to use Python with software

available under the GNU Public License (GPL) was very desirable. CNRI and the Free

Software Foundation (FSF) interacted to develop enabling wording changes to the Python

license. Python 1.6.1 is essentially the same as Python 1.6, with a few minor bug fixes, and

with a different license that enables later versions to be GPL-compatible. Python 2.1 is a

derivative work of Python 1.6.1, as well as of Python 2.0.

After Python 2.0 was released by BeOpen.com, Guido van Rossum and the other PythonLabs

developers joined Digital Creations. All intellectual property added from this point on,

starting with Python 2.1 and its alpha and beta releases, is owned by the Python Software

Foundation (PSF), a non-profit modeled after the Apache Software Foundation. See

http://www.python.org/psf/ for more information about the PSF.

Thanks to the many outside volunteers who have worked under Guido's direction to make

these releases possible.