The History of PythonA series of articles on the history of the Python programming language and its community. David Beazley's talk at US PyCon 2018, about parser generators, reminded me I should write a bit about its history. Here's a brief brain dump (maybe I'll expand later). There are actually two pgens. The original, in C, and a rewrite in Python, under lib2to3/pgen2. I wrote both. The original was actually the f
