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Guido van Rossum
@gvanrossum
Python's BDFL-emeritus, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, Computer History Fellow, fully vaccinated. Opinions are my own. He/him.
San Francisco Bay Area
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    Guido van Rossum
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    Nov 12, 2020
    I decided that retirement was boring and have joined the Developer Division at Microsoft. To do what? Too many options to say! But it’ll make using Python better for sure (and not just on Windows :-). There’s lots of open source here. Watch this space.
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    Aug 22, 2023
    Yeah, so I helped the Excel team with this. Excited that it's out!
    Announcing Python in Excel
    From techcommunity.microsoft.com
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    Apr 24, 2023
    In my high school senior year I was voted "least likely to invent his own programming language."
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    Guido van Rossum
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    Oct 30, 2019
    It's bittersweet: I'm leaving @Dropbox, and am now retired. I've learned a lot during my time as an engineer here -- e.g. type annotations came from this experience -- and I'll miss working here.
    Thank you, Guido
    From blog.dropbox.com
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    Guido van Rossum
    @gvanrossum
    Mar 30, 2022
    Replying to @tech_update0 @ethereum and @solana
    Let web3 die in a flaming ball of fire.
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    Guido van Rossum
    @gvanrossum
    Jul 12, 2018
    Thanks for all the support (email and Twitter). I'm overwhelmed by the responses and won't be replying to most emails in person (except from core devs) but it's much appreciated. I'm still going to be around in the background!
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    Sep 16, 2020
    Python 4 FAQ. 1. The version after 3.9 is 3.10; in fact it already exists (in github master). 2. If there ever is a version 4, the transition from 3 to 4 will be more like that from 1 to 2 rather than 2 to 3.
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    Guido van Rossum
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    May 18, 2025
    The official trailer for the official Python documentary is out!!! ❤️to Ida.
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    May 18, 2025
    The trailer for "Python, the Documentary" by @CultRepo premieres today! 🔥🐍 From its origins in the Netherlands to powering AI at top global companies, this is Python's story. 🎥 The film premieres at @europython in July! Subscribe to @CultRepo's YouTube channel for updates!
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    Jan 1, 2020
    >>> greetings = ["world hello", "nieuwjaar gelukkig", "happy year new"] >>> for g in greetings: ... words = sorted(g.split()) ... print(" ".join(words).title()) ... Hello World Gelukkig Nieuwjaar Happy New Year >>>
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    Guido van Rossum
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    Feb 27, 2021
    Largest mouse pad in the world
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    Guido van Rossum
    @gvanrossum
    Jan 30, 2020
    Today's Python history lesson: Python took its control and data structures from ABC, its identifiers, strings and %-string formats from C, and its regular expressions from Perl. But its # comments (and #!) and -c command line flag came from the UNIX v7 shell.
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    Guido van Rossum
    @gvanrossum
    Sep 9, 2019
    It's (even more) official: support for Python 2 ends 1/1/2020. Read why, and what you should do:
    python.org
    Sunsetting Python 2
    The official home of the Python Programming Language
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    Guido van Rossum
    @gvanrossum
    Jun 28, 2018
    Python 3.7.0 is released! Bring out the celebratory libations. Thanks @baybryj and a cast of thousands on python-dev and GitHub.
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    Guido van Rossum
    @gvanrossum
    Aug 25, 2021
    I'm sick of twitter.