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I'd always thought that if Python was going to go on at all, it'd be nice to get into storylines.

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.

I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.

I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show.