Have you ever thought a particular project could be better if you could just control the file access directly ... particularly in Python, isn’t as complicated as it may seem.

The researchers say that they starting seeing a pattern "within the Python ... One example provided is the “_init_py” file, which loads only after checking it's running on a target system ...

Distributed version control ... Python community. The decision was largely between Bazaar and Mercurial. In the end, van Rossum chose Mercurial after receiving positive feedback about the system.