Python’s journey began at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands when Guido van Rossum sought to create a language that could overcome the complexities found in other programming languages. Drawing inspiration from the ABC language (an earlier teaching tool for beginners), Guido aimed to design a language that avoided the pitfalls of syntactic clutter while still delivering powerful functionality. This led to the creation of a language that, at its core, encouraged clean, readable, and maintainable code.