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Now, let's step aside from coding, take a little break, and learn about Python itself. It was first released in 1991, which is quite a few years ago. Some famous stuff also was released that year, like Linux, Super Nintendo, I think maybe the Simpsons. It's a pretty old language, even though its popularity is actually more current and recent in the last decade. It was created by a Dutch man named Guido van Rossum, and he named it not after the snake, but after the sketch comedy troupe Monty Python, which he was a big fan of. So there are gonna be references to Monty Python skits sprinkled throughout the documentation and kind of in the atmosphere or in the community. It's an open source language, so you can see the source code here. It's written like the base interpreter, the one that you download from the website, is written in C, so it's usually referenced to as CPython, and the source code is there. Guido Van Rossum, he was originally called the benevolent dictator for life, but he…

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