what has python added to programming languages? (lets be esoteric, shall we ;)

[Boris Borcic]

Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
> Over the time I've seen lots of remarks about python that read like "a 
> lot like lists in lisp" or "like the hashtable in java" or any other 
> form of "like <feature> in <language>".
> 
> Are there any concepts that python has not borrowed,

Esoterically speaking, you should better distinguish between historic and 
individual time.

"Python's foo is like Java's foo" speaks of the individual's "exoteric" order of 
experience with Python and Java, that may reverse "esoteric" historical 
chronology (and in fact, does so).