A brief history of Python
The Python project started in December 1989 as a hobby project for Guido van Rossum during his week off around Christmas. His goal was to write an easy-to-use successor for the ABC programming language and to fix the issues that limited the applicability of the it. One of the main design goals of Python is, and has always been, readability. That is what the first part of the chapter is about: readability.
To facilitate new features and to maintain that readability, the Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) process was developed. This process allows anyone to submit a PEP for a new feature, library, or other addition. After a discussion on the Python mailing lists and some improvements, a decision is made to either accept or reject the proposal.
The Python style guide (PEP 8: https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/) was once submitted as one of those PEPs, was accepted, and has been improved regularly ever since. It has a lot of great and widely accepted conventions...
