Paul Everitt in Re: Zope Newbie News explains how Guido van Rossum, Python creator, landed at Digital Creations, the home of the Zope object publishing environment.

When we took a look at our plans, which we'll start talking about more this week, it became clear that this was a golden opportunity. Because of PythonLabs we'll get something better into the market sooner, and the impact of "better/sooner" is enormous. Equally important, Python is our secret weapon, and we're going to help accelerate its success.