From Python 0.9's public release in 1991 it has grown to be one of the most widely used programming languages, including prominence in many domains from web apps to machine learning. While there is never going to be any single explanation of why or how Python reached this point, Python's past can help inform our collective future. In this talk I will introduce a novel Python tool for interactive text analytics to tell a recent history of Python, as seen through the Python questions and answers on Stack Overflow.