This is very good news. I wish Guido all the best! I wonder if this has got to do something with Microsoft developing IronPython. Incidentellay it is reaching a 1.0 release pretty soon. Perhaps Google has some cards up their sleeve. What other best way to counter this than to hire the big fish himself ? :-)
-Anand -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list