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18th February 2009 - Link Blog

The History of Python: Adding Support for User-defined Classes. Guido designed the run-time representation first, and tried to design the syntax to include as few new parsing concepts as possible. The origins of explicit self are also explained.

Posted 18th February 2009 at 11 pm

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