Right -- this commonly comes up as a perk of Google, but (for example) I've dug into Python internals and I haven't yet found a reason to contact Guido about it

Right -- this commonly comes up as a perk of Google, but (for example) I've dug into Python internals and I haven't yet found a reason to contact Guido about it. More to the point: if I did, he seems like a reasonable guy, and I expect he would respond just as well on python-dev regardless of my place of employment.