CSL 410 L06
CSL 410 L06
Lecture No. 06
• According to the principal author (Guido van Rossum), he chose the name
"Python" because he is a big fan of the British comedy movie - 'Monty
Python's Flying Circus'
• Python was designed to for readability, and has some similarities to the
English language with influence from mathematics.
• Python uses new lines to complete a command, as opposed to other
programming languages which often use semicolons or parentheses.
• Python relies on indentation, using whitespace, to define scope; such
as the scope of loops, functions and classes. Other programming
languages often use curly-brackets for this purpose.