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

[Iain King]

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, concepts that were
> not even inspired by other languages? I'm just interested if it is
> "merely" a best-of collection of language features or if there are
> actually inventions that have not - or hardly - existed in programming
> before python?
>
> wildemar

I find slice notation consistent and elegant - did it come form another
language?

Iain