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Guido van Rossum conveys
the sad (and somewhat delayed) news of the passing of Tim Peters.

It’s hard to overestimate Tim’s influence on Python. He’s probably
best known for writing the Zen of Python (PEP 20), but to me he
was a mentor and language co-designer long before that.

Tim found Python not long after its initial release. His first deed
was to convince me that Python should support mixed arithmetic
between int and float, because most users would expect them to work
that way. And he never stopped contributing.