I chose Python as a working title for the project, being in a slightly irreverent mood (and a big fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus).
In February 1991, Van Rossum published the code (labeled version 0.9.0) to alt.sources.
Guido van Rossum (born 1956), Dutch computer programmer and author of the Python programming language
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