Old Python Archives

I have kept (almost) all messages posted to the Python mailing list and newsgroup while I lived in Amsterdam -- until mid April 1995. These are accessible as hypertext, converted by Kevin Huges' excellent hypermail program. (Except the last quarter of 1994, which was -- as an experiment -- maintained by Sam Leffler's MLA tools.)

More recent archives are available through the locator service at Python's home site.

The archive here is divided up in chronological sections, as follows:

• 1995, until April 24
• 1994 -- we have a newsgroup!
  • fourth quarter (MLA) -- What language would you use?
  • third quarter -- Tcl wars and more
  • second quarter -- growth of comp.lang.python
  • first quarter -- including the birth of comp.lang.python
• 1993 -- growth of mailing list
• 1992 -- birth of mailing list