Not a Python old-timer really... started in early 1997 with 1.4 at Four11.com where we developed Yahoo!Mail (called RocketMail back then... anyone remember that or still have an acct?).
We used Python and C++ plus our own home-brewed templating system well before such things existed... the closest I guess would be Cheetah. I haven't made any real serious patches to the source, just various bugfixes and enhancements over the years.
Back then, the only Python books available were Aaron Watters "Internet Programming with Python" and Mark Lutz's "Programming Python". I picked up most of my Python from the Library Reference, and with the development of Python training courses and the aging of those books, I was highly motivated to write "Core Python Programming" (http://corepython.com).
My how Python has changed since then. We've come full circle as 2nd ed is coming in a few months! I look forward to another session of reminiscing when Python is 2 ** 5 years old.
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