On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Does anyone know of other languages that include the same feature? It's very > rare for Python to innovate in language features. > > (I wonder if it came from ABC?)
According to Raymond Hettinger starting at about 15:50 in this video: http://pyvideo.org/video/1780/transforming-code-into-beautiful-idiomatic-pytho It was invented by Donald Knuth (including the choice of keyword). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list