Recognition
- Van Rossum received the 2001 Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation (FSF) at the 2002 FOSDEM conference in Brussels, Belgium.
- Guido received a NLUUG Award in May 2003.
- In 2006 he was recognized as a Distinguished Engineer by the Association for Computing Machinery.
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