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That Python in the Pet Store May Have Been Snatched from the Wild
- matthewmcg 8y agofrom Indonesia import green_python
- noonespecial 8y agoHere in Florida, we have the opposite problem. The pets were released into the wild... Now in Florida, the pythons import you.
- rememberlenny 8y agoClassic global variable problem.
- alephnan 8y agoThis reminded me of the Cobra effect[1] where in an episode of the Simpsons[2] they introduce snakes to population control, but this causes cascading effects in the ecosystem. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Mother https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Mother
- goldenkey 8y agoHere is a link to the video clip: https://youtu.be/f8jlwEPCI5A https://youtu.be/f8jlwEPCI5A
- wolco 8y agoI wonder if the sumbitter was looking for the language Python and came across this by accident vs reading nytimes website and finding this.
- ubittibu 8y agoMy same thought
- uptown 8y agoVery common with parrots too, unfortunately.
- nickpeterson 8y agoThese petstores need to start using virtualenv so they stop mixing up pythons.
- sunstone 8y agoIf the python was snatched from the wild in Florida then all is well and good as pythons are invasive species there.