I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisio…

- Guido Van Rossum

Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

- Guido Van Rossum

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independ…

- Guido Van Rossum

I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of treme…

- Guido Van Rossum

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is e…

- Guido Van Rossum

There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, "thinkos," hidden limitations of underlying abstra…

- Guido Van Rossum

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…

- Guido Van Rossum

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…

- Guido Van Rossum

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 th…

- Guido Van Rossum