“My first look at Python was an accident,
and I didn't much like what I saw at the time. It was early 1997,
and Mark Lutz's book Programming Python from
O'Reilly & Associates had recently come out. O'Reilly books
occasionally land on my doorstep, selected from among the new
releases by some mysterious benefactor inside the organization
using a random process I've given up trying to understand.
” source...