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Gang: Here's a relevation that I only, just now, realized. Python is named after the Monty Python gang. This I knew. IDLE is a play off of Eric Idle. How hav
by tomswartz07 11y ago
Gang:
Here's a relevation that I only, just now, realized.
Python is named after the Monty Python gang. This I knew.
IDLE is a play off of Eric Idle.
How have I never realized this before?
- theandrewbailey 11y ago(Not sure if troll, but I'll bite.) Don't feel bad. It took me a few years to realize that. It stands in contrast to the official coding examples, all of which are way longer than 4 bytes.
- gh02t 11y agoYeah, that's also why they tend to use 'spam' and 'eggs' instead of 'foo' and 'bar' in a lot of the official docs.
- mikestew 11y agoOh, then you've got some surprises waiting for you in the docs. I can't remember the specifics years later, but I recall thinking "odd that $SOMETHING <could have been the 'spam and eggs' thing> is sprinkled throughout the docs. I wonder why...oh."
- HCIdivision17 11y agoIt took me a while to figure out why I kept coming across references to the Cheeseshop. Turns out that's why PyPI has that little quote at the bottom. https://wiki.python.org/moin/CheeseShop https://wiki.python.org/moin/CheeseShop
- kevin_thibedeau 11y agoAlso the inspiration for the wheel packaging format. As in cheese wheel.
- akrolsmir 11y agoSomething else that blew my mind: Jupyter was named after JUlia, PYthon, and R.
- techdragon 11y agoAnd the Calysto Jupyter kernel project is based on the fact that the Jupyter logo is missing one of the Galilean moons. Naming is fun.
- CardenB 11y agoYou mean PYThon