General question about Python design goals

[Paul Rubin]

Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> writes:
> > There's a historical issue too: when tuples started first being
> > used this way in Python, classes had not yet been introduced.
> 
> When was that, old-timer?

It was before my time, but I have the impression that classes arrived
with 1.3 or somewhere around then.  Maybe some of the oldbies here
remember.  I started using Python around when 2.1 was released, I think.