The most seminal papers in the history of Python:
 
 * [[http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/06/02/magazine/python_first_language.html|Python as a First Language]]
 * [[http://web.archive.org/web/20010201170400/http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-02-1998/swol-02-python.html|Getting Started With Python]]
 * [[http://web.archive.org/web/20001013152452/http://sunworld.com/swol-12-1998/swol-12-regex.html|Batteries Included]]
 * EricRaymond's [[http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3882|Why Python]]
 * [[https://staging.python.org/success-stories/usa/|Python Streamlines Space Shuttle Mission Design]]
 * [[https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume12/pedregosa11a/pedregosa11a.pdf|Introduction of Machine Learning Library Scikit-Learn]]: the paper appeared in Journal of Machine Learning Research 2011