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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.

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.

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.

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.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

I'd love to do drama if it was interesting.

I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.

If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.