What is unique about Python?

[Kay Schluehr]

gsteff wrote:

> So I'm wondering, what is
> innovative about Python, either in its design or implementation?  Or is
> its magic really just in combining many useful features of prior
> languages in an unusually pleasant way?
>
> Greg

The latter.

http://www.python-in-business.org/ep2005/download.cpy?document=8599

As Guido described in his presentation Python is a decendent of ABC
developed at the university where he studied.

Here is some material about the primary motivations of ABC:

http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/language.html

Python seems to proof that eclecticism can be done right. 

Kay