Python: The Documentary | An origin story
September 10, 2025
This is the story of the world’s most beloved programming language: Python. What began as a side project in Amsterdam during the 1990s became the software powering artificial intelligence, data science and some of the world’s biggest companies. But Python’s future wasn’t certain; at one point it almost disappeared.This 90-minute documentary features Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more, and they tell the story of Python’s rise, its community-driven evolution, the conflicts that almost tore it apart, and the language’s impact on… well… everything.
A few weeks ago, we linked to a recent documentary on Node.js.
Now from the same producers comes a documentary on Python.
Python is a language that’s been around for decades but has had a huge recent resurgence as the language most strongly associated with AI engineering And machine learning.
I’d never worked with it until the last 12 months or so, I have been working with it quite extensively, admittedly with the help of various large language models, and come to have no little affection for this long-standing, hard-working language.
