Guido van Rossum - Personal Home Page
"Gawky and proud of it."
I am the creator and
emeritus
BDFL of the
Python programming language.
See also my resume
and my publications list, a brief bio, assorted writings, presentations and interviews (all about Python),
and some pictures of me.
My Erdős number is 3.
I am permanently retired.
I have worked for Microsoft, Dropbox, Google, Elemental Security, Zope
Corporation, BeOpen.com, CNRI, CWI, and SARA. (See
my resume.) I created Python while at CWI.
Social Media and Blogs
Read
my "King's
Day Speech" for some inspiration.
Then watch the Python Documentary.
I am
@gvanrossum on Twitter,
Instagram,
and GitHub.
Blog posts:
How to Reach Me
You can send email for me to guido (at) python.org.
I read everything sent there, but I receive too much email to respond
to everything.
Please understand that I do not give talks or keynotes any more,
nor do I participate in podcasts or give interviews, etc.
I am sorry, but I just receive too many such requests to decline
them individually.
Offering payment or trips to exotic locales just makes things worse, sorry.
I also prefer not to receive:
- questions about how to use Python
(please read the documentation or search the internet for Python answers forums),
- bug reports (use the GitHub issue tracker),
- proposals for changes to the language (use Discourse),
- job offers (I'm happy where I am),
- or requests to join you in some far-fetched scheme to save humanity (though sometimes I like me a good rant :-).
My Name
My name often poses difficulties for Americans.
Pronunciation: in Dutch, the "G" in Guido is a hard G,
pronounced roughly like the "ch" in Scottish "loch". (Listen to the
sound clip.) However, if you're
American, you may also pronounce it as the Italian "Guido". I'm not
too worried about the associations with mob assassins that some people
have. :-)
Spelling: my last name is two words, and I'd like to keep it
that way, the spelling on some of my credit cards notwithstanding.
Dutch spelling rules dictate that when used in combination with my
first name, "van" is not capitalized: "Guido van Rossum". But when my
last name is used alone to refer to me, it is capitalized, for
example: "As usual, Van Rossum was right."
Alphabetization: in America, I show up in the alphabet under
"V". But in Europe, I show up under "R". And some of my friends put
me under "G" in their address book...
More Hyperlinks
- Here's a collection of essays relating to Python
that I've written, including the foreword I wrote for Mark Lutz's book
"Programming Python".
- I own the official
Python license.
The Audio File Formats FAQ
I was the original creator and maintainer of the Audio File Formats
FAQ. It was later maintained by Chris Bagwell, but seems to have been
lost. You can still find it on
archive.org by searching for
http://www.cnpbagwell.com/audio-faq. And here is a link to
SOX, to which I contributed
some early code.
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're
a dog."
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content on this site is licensed under
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Python license.
