Python 1.0 - release date?

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know when Python 1.0 was released?
>
> I want to say August of 1993, but there are apparently those who disagree.

Wikipedia [1] says Jan 1994, but the cited link [2] doesn't actually
give a date for 1.0. However, I did find a blog post by Guido [3] says
Jan 26 1994, uncited but presumably authoritative, and digging through
'hg log' shows this:

changeset:   1537:7ecd6380566c
branch:      legacy-trunk
user:        Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
date:        Wed Jan 26 17:55:41 1994 +0000
summary:     Release of 1.0.0

I'd say that's probably when it happened. :)

ChrisA

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python
[2] http://www.python.org/download/releases/ (footnote 8 in the above)
[3] http://python-history.blogspot.com.au/2009/01/brief-timeline-of-python.html