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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.

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.

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

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.

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

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.

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.

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

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

I have always had a ridiculous fear that I will walk into the bathroom one morning and find a python in my toilet.