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Is it really needed? What ABC was inspired by seems tangential at best, let alone giving that much space to a quote from Guido about it. I'll remove it, and probably just put in a note that ABC was inspired by SETL in the history section, unless someone thinks it adds significant value. [[Special:Contributions/79.78.72.145|79.78.72.145]] ([[User talk:79.78.72.145|talk]]) 16:48, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

:I agree. The material in the quote is worth keeping, but it's not so special that it should be put into an offset quote. [[User:TJRC|TJRC]] ([[User talk:TJRC|talk]]) 17:12, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

== Parentheses in the title ==

Python's official name is "Python programming language", as seen on the website (http://www.python.org/) and in the PSF Trademark Usage Policy (http://www.python.org/psf/trademarks/). To quote the latter:

<blockquote>Always use any trademark as an adjective only, followed by a generic noun. For instance, it is correct to refer to the Python programming language (adjective) but not simply to Python (noun). Don't use the trademark as a verb ("Python your software today!").</blockquote>

Despite the fact that hardly anybody uses the long name, I think that the title of this page should be "Python programming language", not "Python (programming language)" --[[User:En-Cu-Kou|En-Cu-Kou]] ([[User talk:En-Cu-Kou|talk]]) 23:44, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

:That's a discussion of the trademark, not the language. The language is clearly "Python" as the Foundation makes clear from its own use on the About page:

::'''About Python'''

::Python is a remarkably powerful dynamic programming language that is used in a wide variety of application domains. Python is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Ruby, Scheme or Java....

:See http://www.python.org/about/. [[User:TJRC|TJRC]] ([[User talk:TJRC|talk]]) 05:33, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

:See also Wikipedia's article naming conventions, which in a nutshell say to use the most '''common/recognizable''' name ('''not''' necessarily the most precise/official one), which is "Python" in this case, with the parens used solely to disambiguate between the other entities called Python. --[[User:Cybercobra|Cybercobra]] ([[User talk:Cybercobra|talk]]) 06:39, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

== closures ==

there should be some mention of support for closures in the article, no? <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/24.130.24.6|24.130.24.6]] ([[User talk:24.130.24.6|talk]]) 05:46, 29 March 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->